Subordinated Wright-Fisher Priors

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Autori principali: Judd, Nathan A., Spanò, Dario
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author Judd, Nathan A.
Spanò, Dario
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Spanò, Dario
contents A new class of time-dependent Dirichlet priors is introduced as a generalisation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion, allowing discontinuities in the trajectories, as well as non-Markovian memory. This class is obtained as a simple stochastic time-change (subordination), interpreted as a hyper-prior assigned to the operational time-clock of a Wright-Fisher diffusion. Explicit representations and exact sampling algorithms are obtained for prior and posterior distributions of the process and of its clock, given partially exchangeable data sampled at discrete time-points. Computability and conjugacy rely on a novel class of discrete dual processes, generalising existing results on duality and computable filters.
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spellingShingle Subordinated Wright-Fisher Priors
Judd, Nathan A.
Spanò, Dario
Statistics Theory
Primary: 62M20, secondary 62F15, 60G35, 62M05, 62M15, 60G07
A new class of time-dependent Dirichlet priors is introduced as a generalisation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion, allowing discontinuities in the trajectories, as well as non-Markovian memory. This class is obtained as a simple stochastic time-change (subordination), interpreted as a hyper-prior assigned to the operational time-clock of a Wright-Fisher diffusion. Explicit representations and exact sampling algorithms are obtained for prior and posterior distributions of the process and of its clock, given partially exchangeable data sampled at discrete time-points. Computability and conjugacy rely on a novel class of discrete dual processes, generalising existing results on duality and computable filters.
title Subordinated Wright-Fisher Priors
topic Statistics Theory
Primary: 62M20, secondary 62F15, 60G35, 62M05, 62M15, 60G07
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11363