Barker's algorithm for Bayesian inference with intractable likelihoods

09/22/2017
by   Flavio B. Gonçalves, et al.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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In this expository paper we abstract and describe a simple MCMC scheme for sampling from intractable target densities. The approach has been introduced in Gonçalves et al. (2017a) in the specific context of jump-diffusions, and is based on the Barker's algorithm paired with a simple Bernoulli factory type scheme, the so called 2-coin algorithm. In many settings it is an alternative to standard Metropolis-Hastings pseudo-marginal method for simulating from intractable target densities. Although Barker's is well-known to be slightly less efficient than Metropolis-Hastings, the key advantage of our approach is that it allows to implement the "marginal Barker's" instead of the extended state space pseudo-marginal Metropolis-Hastings, owing to the special form of the accept/reject probability. We shall illustrate our methodology in the context of Bayesian inference for discretely observed Wright-Fisher family of diffusions.

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