An adaptive importance sampling for locally stable point processes

Hee-Geon Kang () and Sunggon Kim ()
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Hee-Geon Kang: University of Seoul
Sunggon Kim: University of Seoul

Computational Statistics, 2025, vol. 40, issue 7, No 14, 3745-3779

Abstract: Abstract The problem of finding the expected value of a statistic of a locally stable point process in a bounded region is addressed. We propose an adaptive importance sampling for solving the problem. In our proposal, we restrict the importance point process to the family of homogeneous Poisson point processes, which enables us to generate quickly independent samples of the importance point process. The optimal intensity of the importance point process is found by applying the cross-entropy minimization method. In the proposed scheme, the expected value of the statistic and the optimal intensity are iteratively estimated in an adaptive manner. We show that the proposed estimator converges to the target value almost surely, and prove the asymptotic normality of it. We explain how to apply the proposed scheme to the estimation of the intensity of a stationary pairwise interaction point process. The performance of the proposed scheme is compared numerically with Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation and perfect sampling.

Keywords: Locally stable point process; Pairwise interaction point process; Monte Carlo method; Adaptive importance sampling; Cross entropy minimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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