The Kalman-Levy filter

Details The Kalman-Levy filter The Kalman-Levy filter

2000-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0004369v2

Physica D 151, 142174 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

41 pages, 9 figures, correction of errors in the general multivariate case

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0167-2789(01)00228-7

The Kalman filter combines forecasts and new observations to obtain an estimation which is optimal in the sense of a minimum average quadratic error. The Kalman filter has two main restrictions: (i) the dynamical system is assumed linear and (ii) forecasting errors and observational noises are taken Gaussian. Here, we offer an important generalization to the case where errors and noises have heavy tail distributions such as power laws and L\'evy laws. The main tool needed to solve this ``Kalman-L\'evy'' filter is the ``tail-covariance'' matrix which generalizes the covariance matrix in the case where it is mathematically ill-defined (i.e. for power law tail exponents $\mu \leq 2$). We present the general solution and discuss its properties on pedagogical examples. The standard Kalman-Gaussian filter is recovered for the case $\mu = 2$. The optimal Kalman-L\'evy filter is found to deviate substantially fro the standard Kalman-Gaussian filter as $\mu$ deviates from 2. As $\mu$ decreases, novel observations are assimilated with less and less weight as a small exponent $\mu$ implies large errors with significant probabilities. In terms of implementation, the price-to-pay associated with the presence of heavy tail noise distributions is that the standard linear formalism valid for the Gaussian case is transformed into a nonlinear matrice equation for the Kalman-L\'evy filter. Direct numerical experiments in the univariate case confirms our theoretical predictions.

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