Francke, Marc K.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Vos, Aart de - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
diffuse likelihood is a marginal likelihood for a specific data transformation that may depend on parameters. Therefore, the … diffuse likelihood can not be used generally for parameter estimation. Our newly proposed marginal likelihood function is … evaluated using the Kalman filter. The diffuse Kalman filter is specifically designed for computing the diffuse likelihood …