Monte Carlo Methods of Inference for Implicit Statistical Models
隐式统计模型推断的蒙特卡洛方法
SUMMARY A prescribed statistical model is a parametric specification of the distribution of a random vector, whilst an implicit statistical model is one defined at a more fundamental level in terms of a generating stochastic mechanism. This paper develops methods of inference which can be used for implicit statistical models whose distribution theory is intractable. The kernel method of probability density estimation is advocated for estimating a log-likelihood from…