Exam Questions Flashcards

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What is the Log Likelihood of a State Space Model? What is a diffuse Log Likelihood?

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How do you rewrite an ARMA model to a State Space model?

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What are the steps to proof the Kalman Filter/Smoother?

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What is a Quasi-Maximum Likelihood?

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What is the difference between Importance Sampling and Particle Filtering?

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When is Simulation Smoothing used?

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What are Extended Kalman Filters/Smoothers used for? How do they work?

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When are Mode Estimations used?

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How do Mode Estimations work?

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How do particle filters work?

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What is the SDPK-procedure? When is it used?

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Why are each of the three Lemma’s important?

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What is the non-diffuse initialization?

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What is the importance density for the Bootstrap-filter?

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