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Convergence in distribution for filtering processes associated to Hidden Markov Models with densities

A Hidden Markov Model generates two basic stochastic processes, a Markov chain, which is hidden, and an observation sequence. The filtering process of a Hidden Markov Model is, roughly speaking, the sequence of conditional distributions of the hidden Markov chain that is obtained as new observations are received. It is well-known, that the filtering process itself, is also a Markov chain. A classical, theoretical problem is to find conditions which implies that the distributions of the filtering process converge towards a unique limit measure. This problem goes back to a paper of D Blackwell for the case when the Markov chain takes its values in a finite set and it goes back to a paper of H Kunita for the case when the state space of the Markov chain is a compact Hausdor space. Recently, due to work by F Kochmann, J Reeds, P Chigansky and R van Handel, a necessary and sucient condition for the convergence of the distributions of the filtering process has been found for the case when the state space is finite. This condition has since been generalised to the case when the state space is denumerable. In this paper we generalise some of the previous results on convergence in distribution to the case when the Markov chain and the observation sequence of a Hidden Markov Model take their values in complete, separable, metric spaces; it has though been necessary to assume that both the transition probability function of the Markov chain and the transition probability function that generates the observation sequence have densities.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-92590
Date January 2013
CreatorsKaijser, Thomas
PublisherLinköpings universitet, Matematik och tillämpad matematik, Linköpings universitet, Tekniska högskolan, Linköping
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeReport, info:eu-repo/semantics/report, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationLiTH-MAT-R, 0348-2960 ; 2013:05

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