An extended empirical saddlepoint approximation for intractable likelihoods

DOI10.1214/18-ejs1433zbMath1395.62338arXiv1601.01849OpenAlexW2963399751WikidataQ129751550 ScholiaQ129751550MaRDI QIDQ127258

Mark V. Bravington, Matteo Fasiolo, Florian Hartig, Simon N. Wood, Mark V. Bravington, Matteo Fasiolo, Simon N. Wood, Florian Hartig

Publication date: 1 January 2018

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01849

zbMATH Keywords

saddlepoint approximationdensity estimationintractable likelihoodsimulation-based inferenceimplicit statistical modelsynthetic likelihood

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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Uses Software

• R
• CRAN
• copula
• copula
• GPS-ABC

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