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CRiSM Seminar - Andrew Golightly

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Location: A1.01

Andrew Golightly (Newcastle University)

Auxiliary particle MCMC schemes for partially observed Markov jump processes

We consider Bayesian inference for parameters governing Markov jump processes (MJPs) using discretely observed data that may be incomplete and subject to measurement error. We use a recently proposed particle MCMC scheme which jointly updates parameters of interest and the latent process and present a vanilla implementation based on a bootstrap filter before considering improvements based around an auxiliary particle filter. In particular, we focus on a linear noise approximation to the MJP to construct a pre-weighting scheme and couple this with a bridging mechanism. Finally, we embed this approach within a 'delayed acceptance' framework to allow further computational gains. The methods are illustrated with some examples arising in systems biology.

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