Discretization of Continuous Markov Chains and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Convergence Assessment
连续状态空间马尔可夫链的离散化与 MCMC 收敛评估
We show that continuous state-space Markov chains can be rigorously discretized into finite Markov chains. The idea is to subsample the continuous chain at renewal times related to small sets that control the discretization. Once a finite Markov chain is derived from the Markov chain Monte Carlo output, general convergence properties on finite state spaces can be exploited for convergence assessment in several directions. Our choice is based on a divergence criterion derived…