Estimation for Univariate and Bivariate Reinforced Urn Processes Under Left-Truncation and Right-Censoring
Social Science Research Network(2021)
摘要
Reinforced Urn Processes (RUPs) represent a flexible class of Bayesian nonparametric models suitable for dealing with possibly right-censored and left-truncated observations. A reliable estimation of their hyper-parameters is however missing in the literature. We therefore propose an extension of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for RUPs, both in the univariate and the bivariate case. Furthermore, a new methodology combining EM and the prior elicitation mechanism of RUPs is developed: the Expectation-Reinforcement algorithm. Numerical results showing the performance of both algorithms are presented for several analytical examples as well as for a large dataset of Canadian annuities.
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