Diffusion Processes with Hidden States from ... - FU Berlin, FB MI
Diffusion Processes with Hidden States from ... - FU Berlin, FB MI
Diffusion Processes with Hidden States from ... - FU Berlin, FB MI
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3.12 Artificial Test Examples for <strong>Hidden</strong> Markov Model - Vector Auto Regression (HMM-VAR)Figure 3.15: Likelihood convergence 2. Convergence of the Likelihood for the estimation of atwo-dimensional trajectory <strong>with</strong> underlying HMM sequence of 1000 steps.Next we wanted to know, how estimation results are changing, when assigning the algorithm <strong>with</strong>a random sequence of the same length, but induced by a significantly different transition matrix,for example by a matrix like the following one:⎛T = ⎝0.5 0.25 0.250.25 0.5 0.250.25 0.25 0.5⎞⎠. (3.97)Obviously (3.97) creates a sequence in which the states are not holding as much time, as it is thecase for a sequence, induced by the matrix (3.90).Repeated evaluation of the estimation process delivered a very interesting result. Obviously estimationis as extraordinary good, as it was for the assignment <strong>with</strong> the correct sequence. Thedistance between the true transition matrix (3.90) and the estimated one is approximately 0.003,corresponding to a deviation of 0.3%, although the initialization of the algorithm was done bya sequence, generated by the transition matrix (3.97), significantly deviating <strong>from</strong> the true one,(3.90).In the following we will use this good result as a motivation, in order to go further and make someinvestigations on the estimation of the <strong>Diffusion</strong> constants. Since we have free <strong>Diffusion</strong>, thusthere is no potential, we just can concentrate on the covariance matrices and neglect the regression53