Bayesian Inference and Forecasting in Dynamic Neural Networks with Fully Markov Switching ARCH Noises

Author: Spezia Luigi  

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN: 0361-0926

Source: Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, Vol.37, Iss.13, 2008-01, pp. : 2079-2094

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Abstract

We deal with one-layer feed-forward neural network for the Bayesian analysis of nonlinear time series. Noises are modeled nonlinearly and nonnormally, by means of ARCH models whose parameters are all dependent on a hidden Markov chain. Parameter estimation is performed by sampling from the posterior distribution via Evolutionary Monte Carlo algorithm, in which two new crossover operators have been introduced. Unknown parameters of the model also include the missing values which can occur within the observed series, so, considering future values as missing, it is also possible to compute point and interval multi-step-ahead predictions.