Linear-Cost Vecchia Approximation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities
多元正态概率的线性成本 Vecchia 近似
Multivariate normal (MVN) probabilities arise in myriad applications, but they are analytically intractable and need to be evaluated via Monte Carlo-based numerical integration. For the state-of-the-art minimax exponential tilting (MET) method, we show that the complexity of each of its components can be greatly reduced through an integrand parameterization that uses the sparse inverse Cholesky factor produced by the Vecchia approximation, whose approximation error is often…