Estimation of Copula Models With Discrete Margins via Bayesian Data Augmentation
通过贝叶斯数据增广估计离散边际 Copula 模型
Estimation of copula models with discrete margins can be difficult beyond the bivariate case. We show how this can be achieved by augmenting the likelihood with continuous latent variables, and computing inference using the resulting augmented posterior. To evaluate this, we propose two efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling schemes. One generates the latent variables as a block using a Metropolis–Hastings step with a proposal that is close to its target distribution,…