Goal
The particle filter aims to estimate the sequence of hidden parameters, xk for k = 0,1,2,3,…, based only on the observed data yk for k = 0,1,2,3,…. All Bayesian estimates of xk follow from the posterior distribution p(xk | y0,y1,…,yk). In contrast, the MCMC or importance sampling approach would model the full posterior p(x0,x1,…,xk | y0,y1,…,yk).
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