
handle: 1959.4/unsworks_74419
Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods are used to carry out inference in non-linear and non-Gaussian state space models, where the posterior density of the states is approximated using particles. Current approaches usually perform Bayesian inference using either a particle Marginal Metropolis-Hastings (PMMH) algorithm or a particle Gibbs (PG) sampler. This paper shows how the two ways of generating variables mentioned above can be combined in a flexible manner to give sampling schemes that converge to a desired target distribution. The advantage of our approach is that the sampling scheme can be tailored to obtain good results for different applications. For example, when some parameters and the states are highly correlated, such parameters can be generated using PMMH, while all other parameters are generated using PG because it is easier to obtain good proposals for the parameters within the PG framework. We derive some convergence properties of our sampling scheme and also investigate its performance empirically by applying it to univariate and multivariate stochastic volatility models and comparing it to other PMCMC methods proposed in the literature.
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FOS: Computer and information sciences, anzsrc-for: 0104 Statistics, anzsrc-for: 4901 Applied mathematics, anzsrc-for: 4903 Numerical and computational mathematics, anzsrc-for: 4905 Statistics, anzsrc-for: 0802 Computation Theory and Mathematics, Statistics - Computation, Computation (stat.CO)
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