thames: THAMES estimator of the (reciprocal) log marginal likelihood

In thames: Truncated Harmonic Mean Estimator of the Marginal Likelihood

THAMES estimator of the (reciprocal) log marginal likelihood

Description

This function computes the THAMES estimate of the reciprocal log marginal likelihood using posterior samples and unnormalized log posterior values.

Usage

thames(
  lps = NULL,
  params,
  n_samples = NULL,
  d = NULL,
  radius = NULL,
  p = 0.025,
  q = 1 - p,
  lp_func = NULL,
  bound = NULL,
  n_simuls = 1e+05
)

Arguments

lps	vector of unnormalized log posterior values of length n_samples (sum of the log prior and the log likelihood)
params	matrix of parameter posterior samples of dimension n_samples * d
n_samples	integer, number of posterior samples
d	integer, dimension of parameter space
radius	positive number, radius to use for defining the ellipsoid A
p	percentile, used for lower bound of confidence interval
q	percentile, used for upper bound of confidence interval
lp_func	function to compute unnormalized log posterior values
bound	function calculating membership of a point in the posterior support
n_simuls	integer, number of Monte Carlo simulations to use in the bounded parameter correction calculation.

Value

Returns a named list with the following elements:

References

Metodiev M, Perrot-Dockès M, Ouadah S, Irons N. J., Latouche P., Raftery A. E. (2024) Easily Computed Marginal Likelihoods from Posterior Simulation Using the THAMES Estimator. Bayesian Analysis.

Examples

mu_star = 1
n <- 50
Y = rnorm(n, mu_star, 1)
sig2 <- 1
sig2_n <- 1/(n+1/sig2)
mn <- sum(Y)/(n + 1/sig2)
params <- rnorm(20, mean=mn,  (sig2_n))
lps <-  sapply(params, function(i){
sum(dnorm(Y,i,1,log = TRUE)) + dnorm(i,0,sig2, log = TRUE)})
thames(lps, params)

thames documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 7:25 p.m.