Mixtures of skewed Kalman filters

Abstract
Normal state-space models are prevalent, but to increase the applicability of the Kalman filter, we propose mixtures of skewed, and extended skewed, Kalman filters. To do so, the closed skew-normal distribution is extended to a scale mixture class of closed skew-normal distributions. Some basic properties are derived and a class of closed skew. t distributions is obtained. Our suggested family of distributions is skewed and has heavy tails too, so it is appropriate for robust analysis. Our proposed special sequential Monte Carlo methods use a random mixture of the closed skew-normal distributions to approximate a target distribution. Hence it is possible to handle skewed and heavy tailed data simultaneously. These methods are illustrated with numerical experiments. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.

Citation
Kim, H.-M., Ryu, D., Mallick, B. K., & Genton, M. G. (2014). Mixtures of skewed Kalman filters. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 123, 228–251. doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2013.09.002

Acknowledgements
This publication is based in part on work supported by Award No. KUS-C1-016-04 made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and by NSF grant DMS-1007504. The first author's research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2013R1A1A2005995).

Publisher
Elsevier BV

Journal
Journal of Multivariate Analysis

DOI
10.1016/j.jmva.2013.09.002

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