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Antenna Showers with Hadronic Initial States
We present an antenna shower formalism including contributions from
initial-state partons and corresponding backwards evolution. We give a set of
phase-space maps and antenna functions for massless partons which define a
complete shower formalism suitable for computing observables with hadronic
initial states. We focus on the initial-state components: initial-initial and
initial-final antenna configurations. The formalism includes comprehensive
possibilities for uncertainty estimates. We report on some preliminary results
obtained with an implementation in the Vincia antenna-shower framework.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Asymptotic confidence bands for the estimated autocovariance and autocorrelation functions of vector autoregressive models
This paper provides closed-form formulae for computing the asymptotic standard errors of the estimated autocovariance and autocorrelation functions for stable VAR models by means of the d-method. These standard errors can be used to construct asymptotic confidence bands for the estimated autocovariance and autocorrelation functions in order to assess the underlying estimation uncertainty. A Monte Carlo experiment gives evidence on the small-sample performance of these asymptotic confidence bands compared with that obtained using bootstrap methods. The usefulness of the asymptotic confidence bands for empirical work is illustrated by two applications to euro area data on inflation, output and interest rates. JEL Classification: C13, C32, E31, E43-method, autocovariances and autocorrelations, bootstrap method, confidence bands, euro area, Phillips curve, vector autoregressions, yield curve
Variational Bayesian Inference of Line Spectra
In this paper, we address the fundamental problem of line spectral estimation
in a Bayesian framework. We target model order and parameter estimation via
variational inference in a probabilistic model in which the frequencies are
continuous-valued, i.e., not restricted to a grid; and the coefficients are
governed by a Bernoulli-Gaussian prior model turning model order selection into
binary sequence detection. Unlike earlier works which retain only point
estimates of the frequencies, we undertake a more complete Bayesian treatment
by estimating the posterior probability density functions (pdfs) of the
frequencies and computing expectations over them. Thus, we additionally capture
and operate with the uncertainty of the frequency estimates. Aiming to maximize
the model evidence, variational optimization provides analytic approximations
of the posterior pdfs and also gives estimates of the additional parameters. We
propose an accurate representation of the pdfs of the frequencies by mixtures
of von Mises pdfs, which yields closed-form expectations. We define the
algorithm VALSE in which the estimates of the pdfs and parameters are
iteratively updated. VALSE is a gridless, convergent method, does not require
parameter tuning, can easily include prior knowledge about the frequencies and
provides approximate posterior pdfs based on which the uncertainty in line
spectral estimation can be quantified. Simulation results show that accounting
for the uncertainty of frequency estimates, rather than computing just point
estimates, significantly improves the performance. The performance of VALSE is
superior to that of state-of-the-art methods and closely approaches the
Cram\'er-Rao bound computed for the true model order.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on
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