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  • 标题:Importance Sampling Schemes for Evidence Approximation in Mixture Models
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  • 作者:Jeong Eun Lee ; Christian P. Robert
  • 期刊名称:Bayesian Analysis
  • 印刷版ISSN:1931-6690
  • 电子版ISSN:1936-0975
  • 出版年度:2016
  • 卷号:11
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:573-597
  • DOI:10.1214/15-BA970
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:International Society for Bayesian Analysis
  • 摘要:The marginal likelihood is a central tool for drawing Bayesian inference about the number of components in mixture models. It is often approximated since the exact form is unavailable. A bias in the approximation may be due to an incomplete exploration by a simulated Markov chain (e.g. a Gibbs sequence) of the collection of posterior modes, a phenomenon also known as lack of label switching, as all possible label permutations must be simulated by a chain in order to converge and hence overcome the bias. In an importance sampling approach, imposing label switching to the importance function results in an exponential increase of the computational cost with the number of components. In this paper, two importance sampling schemes are proposed through choices for the importance function: a maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) proposal and a Rao–Blackwellised importance function. The second scheme is called dual importance sampling. We demonstrate that this dual importance sampling is a valid estimator of the evidence. To reduce the induced high demand in computation, the original importance function is approximated, but a suitable approximation can produce an estimate with the same precision and with less computational workload.
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