hello all
happy new year and hope you r having a good holiday.
i would like to calculate the expectation of a particular random variable and
would like to approximate it using a number of the functions contained in R.
decided to do some experimentation on a trivial example.
example
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suppose x(i)~N(0,s2) where s2 = the variance
the prior for s2 = p(s2)~IG(a,b)
so the posterior is IG(.5*n+a, b+.5*sum(x^2) )
and the posterior expectation of s2 = (b+sum(x^2))/(.5*n+a-1)
I want to calculate the value of this expectation using integrals.
ie
let L(X|s2) = the likelihood function
so E(s2|X) = (integral(s2*L(X|s2)*p(s2)))/(integral(L(X|s2)*p(s2))) . the
bounds on both of the integrals is (0,Inf)
=========================================================================
three methods are used to calculate E(s2|X) for different sample sizes:
Method 1
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(integral(s2*L(X|s2)*p(s2)))/(integral(L(X|s2)*p(s2))) where the integrals are
calculated using the integrate function
Method 2
=========
transform s2 to tau (from (0,Inf) to (-1,1))
f(s2) = tau = 4*arctan(s2)/pi-1
so
E(s2|X) =
(integral(jac*finv(s2)*L(X|finv(s2))*p(finv(s2))))/(integral(L(X|finv(s2))*p(finv(s2))))
. the bounds on both integrals is (-1,1)
jac = the jacobian and finv is the inverse function of f(s2)
once again the integrals are calculated using the intergrate function
Method 3
=========
legendre gaussian quadriture is used to calculate each of the integrals using
Method 2.
Some results and comments are below.
method 3 seems to give the correct solution for n<=343
differences between the different methods can be detected from as early as n=3
for method 1
IS THERE A WAY TO MODIFY THE PROBLEM SO THAT THE EXPECTATION CAN BE CALCULATED
FOR LARGE n without using MC or MCMC methods?
P(1)
$correct
[1] 2.201234
$App.2
[1] 2.201234
$App.trans
[1] 2.201234
$App.gq
[1] 2.201234
#=========================================
P(100)
$correct
[1] 18.85535
$App.2
[1] 15.65814
$App.trans
[1] 18.85028
$App.gq
[1] 18.85535
#=========================================
P(300)
$correct
[1] 22.59924
$App.2
[1] NaN
$App.trans
[1] 18.85405
$App.gq
[1] 22.59924
#=========================================
P(500)
Error in integrate(num., 0, Inf) : non-finite function value
The code is included below:
P=function(n=1,howmany=500)
{
#you do need to have stamod
#howmany is used to set the number of points used for the gaussian quadriture
set.seed(1)
sigma=5
x=rnorm(n)*sigma
a=5
b=5
#the correct expectation
#===========================================================
correct=(b+sum(x^2)*.5)/(.5*n+a-1)
#Method 1
#===========================================================
num.=function(s2)
{
L=((2*pi*s2)^(-n*.5))*exp(-.5*sum(x^2)/s2)
P=(s2^(-(a+1)))*exp(-b/s2)*(b^a)/gamma(a)
return(s2*L*P)
}
den.=function(s2)
{
L=((2*pi*s2)^(-n*.5))*exp(-.5*sum(x^2)/s2)
P=(s2^(-(a+1)))*exp(-b/s2)*(b^a)/gamma(a)
return(L*P)
}
App.2=integrate(num.,0,Inf)$value/integrate(den.,0,Inf)$value
#Method 2
#===========================================================
num.t=function(s2.)
{
s2=tan(.25*pi*(1+s2.))
jac=.25*pi*(((tan(.25*pi*(1+s2.)))^2)+1)
num.tv=jac*exp(-(a+.5*n)*log(s2)-(b+sum(x^2)*.5)/s2)
return(num.tv)
}
den.t=function(s2.)
{
s2=tan(.25*pi*(1+s2.))
jac=.25*pi*(((tan(.25*pi*(1+s2.)))^2)+1)
den.tv=jac*exp(-(a+.5*n+1)*log(s2)-(b+sum(x^2)*.5)/s2)
return(den.tv)
}
App.trans=integrate(num.t,-1,1)$value/ integrate(den.t,-1,1)$value
#Method 3
#===========================================================
library(statmod)
ad.=gauss.quad(n=howmany,kind="legendre",alpha=-1,beta=-1)
n.=ad.$nodes
w.=ad.$weights
App.gq=sum(w.*num.t(n.))/sum(w.*den.t(n.))
list(correct=correct,App.2=App.2,App.trans=App.trans, App.gq=App.gq)
}
Allan Clark
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University of Cape Town
7701 Rondebosch
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