Approximating the marginal likelihood using copula

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2008-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/0810.5474v1

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29 pages

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Model selection is an important activity in modern data analysis and the conventional Bayesian approach to this problem involves calculation of marginal likelihoods for different models, together with diagnostics which examine specific aspects of model fit. Calculating the marginal likelihood is a difficult computational problem. Our article proposes some extensions of the Laplace approximation for this task that are related to copula models and which are easy to apply. Variations which can be used both with and without simulation from the posterior distribution are considered, as well as use of the approximations with bridge sampling and in random effects models with a large number of latent variables. The use of a t-copula to obtain higher accuracy when multivariate dependence is not well captured by a Gaussian copula is also discussed.

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