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B0930
Title: Correlated pseudo marginal schemes for partially observed diffusion processes Authors:  Andrew Golightly - Newcastle University (United Kingdom) [presenting]
Abstract: Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) provide a natural framework for modelling intrinsic stochasticity inherent in many continuous-time physical processes. Performing fully Bayesian inference for such models, using discrete time data that may be incomplete and subject to measurement error is a challenging problem. One widely used approach is to replace unavailable transition densities with an Euler-Maruyama approximation, made sufficiently accurate through the introduction of intermediate times between observations. Pseudo marginal MCMC schemes are increasingly used for the inference problem, since for a given discretisation level, the observed data likelihood can be unbiasedly estimated using a particle filter. When observations are particularly informative, a diffusion bridge construct can be used to drive the particle filter. Recent work in state-space settings has shown how the pseudo marginal approach can be made much more efficient by correlating the underlying pseudo random numbers used to form the estimate of likelihood at the current and proposed values of the unknown parameters. We extend this approach to the discretised diffusion process framework by correlating the Gaussian innovations that drive the diffusion bridge construct used inside particle filter. We find that the resulting approach offers substantial gains in efficiency over a standard implementation.