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Iterative conditional replacement algorithm for conditionally specified models (2307.00219v1)

Published 1 Jul 2023 in stat.CO

Abstract: The sample-based Gibbs sampler has been the dominant method for approximating joint distribution from a collection of compatible full-conditional distributions. However for conditionally specified model, mixtures of incompatible full and non-full conditional distributions are the realities; but, their updating orders are hard to identified. We propose a new algorithm, the Iterative Conditional Replacement (ICR), that produces distributional approximations toward the stationary distributions, dispensing Markov chain entirely. ICR always converges, and it produces mutually stationary distributions, which will be consistent among one another when the conditional distributions are compatible. Examples show ICR to be superior in quality, while being more parallelizable and requiring little effort in monitoring its convergence. Last, we propose an ensemble approach to decide the final model.

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