• Media type: E-Book; Report; Text
  • Title: Forward-reverse EM algorithm for Markov chains
  • Contributor: Bayer, Christian [Author]; Mai, Hilmar [Author]; Schoenmakers, John G.M. [Author]
  • imprint: Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2013
  • Issue: published Version
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.34657/2385
  • ISSN: 0946-8633; 0946-8633
  • Keywords: maximum likelihood estimation ; Monte Carlo simulation ; EM algorithm ; Markov chain estimation ; Forward-reverse representations
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  • Description: We develop an EM algorithm for estimating parameters that determine the dynamics of a discrete time Markov chain evolving through a certain measurable state space. As a key tool for the construction of the EM method we develop forward-reverse representations for Markov chains conditioned on a certain terminal state. These representations may be considered as an extension of the earlier work [1] on conditional diffusions. We present several experiments and consider the convergence of the new EM algorithm.
  • Access State: Open Access