Journal article
On the convergence rate of the unscented transformation
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Vol.65(5), pp.889-912
10/2013
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-013-0397-x
Abstract
Nonlinear state-space models driven by differential equations have been widely used in science. Their statistical inference generally requires computing the mean and covariance matrix of some nonlinear function of the state variables, which can be done in several ways. For example, such computations may be approximately done by Monte Carlo, which is rather computationally expensive. Linear approximation by the first-order Taylor expansion is a fast alternative. However, the approximation error becomes non-negligible with strongly nonlinear functions. Unscented transformation was proposed to overcome these difficulties, but it lacks theoretical justification. In this paper, we derive some theoretical properties of the unscented transformation and contrast it with the method of linear approximation. Particularly, we derive the convergence rate of the unscented transformation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- On the convergence rate of the unscented transformation
- Creators
- Kwang Ahn - Division of Biostatistics Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee WI 53226 USAKung-Sik Chan - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science The University of Iowa Iowa City IA 52242 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Vol.65(5), pp.889-912
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10463-013-0397-x
- ISSN
- 0020-3157
- eISSN
- 1572-9052
- Publisher
- Springer Japan; Tokyo
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2013
- Academic Unit
- Statistics and Actuarial Science; Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9983985957202771
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