Sequential importance sampling for nonparametric Bayes models: The next generation
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique
- Vol. 27 (2) , 251-267
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3315637
Abstract
There are two generations of Gibbs sampling methods for semiparametric models involving the Dirichlet process. The first generation suffered from a severe drawback: the locations of the clusters, or groups of parameters, could essentially become fixed, moving only rarely. Two strategies that have been proposed to create the second generation of Gibbs samplers are integration and appending a second stage to the Gibbs sampler wherein the cluster locations are moved. We show that these same strategies are easily implemented for the sequential importance sampler, and that the first strategy dramatically improves results. As in the case of Gibbs sampling, these strategies are applicable to a much wider class of models. They are shown to provide more uniform importance sampling weights and lead to additional Rao‐Blackwellization of estimators.Keywords
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