Francois Domagni | Searcharxiv

arXiv2019

The general Nature of Saturated Designs

We contemplate an experimental situation in a $2^k$-factorial experiment with acute resource crunch so that we need to conduct just a saturated design [SD] - with the understanding that precision of the estimates cannot be estimated from the data. It is known beforehand which effect(s)/interaction(s) are likely to be negligible. We examine the flexibility to the extent that an experimenter can make a choice of an SD in order to retain information on all the remaining [non-negligible] effects/interactions.

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arXiv2017

Efficient posterior inference on the volatility of a jump diffusion process

Jump diffusion processes are widely used to model asset prices over time, mainly for their ability to capture complex discontinuous behavior, but inference on the model parameters remains a challenge. Here our goal is posterior inference on the volatility coefficient of the diffusion part of the process based on discrete samples. A Bayesian approach requires specification of a model for the jump part of the process, prior distributions for the corresponding parameters, and computation of the joint posterior. Since the volatility coefficient is our only interest, it would be desirable to avoid the modeling and computational costs associated with the jump part of the process. Towards this, we consider a {\em purposely misspecified model} that ignores the jump part entirely. We work out precisely the asymptotic behavior of the Bayesian posterior under the misspecified model, propose some simple modifications to correct for the effects of misspecification, and demonstrate that our modified posterior inference on the volatility is efficient in the sense that its asymptotic variance equals the no-jumps model Cramér--Rao bound.

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