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Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Missing Data
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with missing data extends the gradient-based HMC sampler to handle incomplete observations by treating missing values as additional unknown parameters. The posterior over model parameters and missing values is sampled jointly in one efficient pass, exploiting gradient information to explore the high-dimensional joint space with far fewer rejected proposals than random-walk MCMC.
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- Neal, R. M. (2011). MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics. In S. Brooks, A. Gelman, G. Jones & X.-L. Meng (Eds.), Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (pp. 113-162). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1420079418
- Gelman, A., Carlin, J. B., Stern, H. S., Dunson, D. B., Vehtari, A. & Rubin, D. B. (2013). Bayesian Data Analysis (3rd ed.). CRC Press. Chapter 18: Missing-data imputation. ISBN: 978-1439840955