Monte Carlo Estimation for Nonlinear Non-Gaussian State Space Models
非线性非高斯状态空间模型的蒙特卡洛估计
We develop a proposal or importance density for state space models with a nonlinear non-Gaussian observation vector y ∼ p(y¦θ) and an unobserved linear Gaussian signal vector θ ∼ p(θ). The proposal density is obtained from the Laplace approximation of the smoothing density p(θ¦y). We present efficient algorithms to calculate the mode of p(θ¦y) and to sample from the proposal density. The samples can be used for importance sampling and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The…