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Monte Carlo Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations and their Applications

We introduce computationally efficient Monte Carlo methods for studying the statistics of stochastic differential equations in two distinct settings. In the first, we derive importance sampling methods for data assimilation when the noise in the model and observations are small. The methods are formulated in discrete time, where the "posterior" distribution we want to sample from can be analyzed in an accessible small noise expansion. We show that a "symmetrization" procedure akin to antithetic coupling can improve the order of accuracy of the sampling methods, which is illustrated with numerical examples. In the second setting, we develop "stochastic continuation" methods to estimate level sets for statistics of stochastic differential equations with respect to their parameters. We adapt Keller's Pseudo-Arclength continuation method to this setting using stochastic approximation, and generalized least squares regression. Furthermore, we show that the methods can be improved through the use of coupling methods to reduce the variance of the derivative estimates that are involved.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/624570
Date January 2017
CreatorsLeach, Andrew Bradford, Leach, Andrew Bradford
ContributorsLin, Kevin, Morzfeld, Matthias, Lin, Kevin, Morzfeld, Matthias, Lega, Joceline, Sethuraman, Sunder, Venkataramani, Shankar
PublisherThe University of Arizona.
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Electronic Dissertation
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