ABC shadow algorithm: a tool for statistical analysis of spatial patterns

DOI10.1007/S11222-016-9682-XMaRDI QIDQ2361470zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Radu Stoica, Jorge Mateu, Anne Philippe, Pablo Gregori

Publication date 30 June 2017

Published in Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04228

zbMATH Keywords

approximate Bayesian computationcomputational methods in Markov chainsmaximum likelihood estimationpoint processesspatial pattern analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Bayesian inference (62F15)

Abstract: This paper presents an original ABC algorithm, "ABC Shadow", that can be applied to sample posterior densities that are continuously differentiable. The proposed method uses the ideas given by the auxiliary variable MH of (Mo ller and Waagepetersen, 2004). The obtained algorithm solves the main condition to be fulfilled by any ABC algorithm, in order to be useful in practice. This condition requires enough samples in the parameter space region, induced by the observed statistics (Blum, 2010). The algorithm is tuned on the posterior of a Gaussian model which is entirely known, and then it is applied for the statistical analysis of several spatial patterns. These patterns are issued or assumed to be outcomes of point processes. The considered models are: Strauss, Candy and area-interaction.

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