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On the asymptotic behaviour of the posterior distribution in hidden Markov Models with unknown number of states

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We consider finite state space stationary hidden Markov models (HMMs) in the situation where the number of hidden states is unknown. We provide a frequentist asymptotic evaluation of Bayesian analysis methods. Our main result gives posterior concentration rates for the marginal densities, that is for the density of a fixed number of consecutive observations. Using conditions on the prior, we are then able to define a consistent Bayesian estimator of the number of hidden states. It is known that the likelihood ratio test statistic for overfitted HMMs has a non standard behaviour and is unbounded. Our conditions on the prior may be seen as a way to penalize parameters to avoid this phenomenon. Inference of parameters is a much more difficult task than inference of marginal densities, we still provide a precise description of the situation when the observations are i.i.d. and we allow for 2 possible hidden states.
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hal-00671563 , version 1 (22-02-2012)
hal-00671563 , version 2 (13-01-2015)

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Elisabeth Gassiat, Judith Rousseau. On the asymptotic behaviour of the posterior distribution in hidden Markov Models with unknown number of states. Bernoulli, 2014, pp.20 (4), 2014, 2039-2075. ⟨hal-00671563v2⟩
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