Convergence of regression-adjusted approximate Bayesian computation

Wentao Li and Paul Fearnhead

Biometrika, 2018, vol. 105, issue 2, 301-318

Abstract: SUMMARYWe present asymptotic results for the regression-adjusted version of approximate Bayesian computation introduced by Beaumont et al. (2002). We show that for an appropriate choice of the bandwidth, regression adjustment will lead to a posterior that, asymptotically, correctly quantifies uncertainty. Furthermore, for such a choice of bandwidth we can implement an importance sampling algorithm to sample from the posterior whose acceptance probability tends to unity as the data sample size increases. This compares favourably to results for standard approximate Bayesian computation, where the only way to obtain a posterior that correctly quantifies uncertainty is to choose a much smaller bandwidth, one for which the acceptance probability tends to zero and hence for which Monte Carlo error will dominate.

Keywords: Approximate Bayesian computation; Importance sampling; Local-linear regression; Partial information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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