The purpose of this book is to provide a rigorous mathematical treatment of the non-linear stochastic filtering problem using modern methods. Particular emphasis is placed on the theoretical analysis of numerical methods for the solution of the filtering problem via particle methods. The book should provide sufficient background to enable study of the recent literature. While no prior knowledge of stochastic filtering is required, readers are assumed to be familiar with measure theory, probability theory and the basics of stochastic processes. Most of the technical results that are required are stated and proved in the appendices. The book is intended as a reference for graduate students and researchers interested in the field. It is also suitable for use as a text for a graduate level course on stochastic filtering (suitable exercises and solutions are included).

The authors are an authority in the stochastic filtering field An assortment of Measure Theory, Probability Theory and Stochastic Analysis results are included in order to make this book as self contained as possible Exercises and solutions included throughout

Autorentext
Dan Crisan is Reader in Mathematics at Imperial College London. His main research interest is stochastic filtering theory.

Klappentext

The objective of stochastic filtering is to determine the best estimate for the state of a stochastic dynamical system from partial observations. The solution of this problem in the linear case is the well known Kalman-Bucy filter which has found widespread practical application. The purpose of this book is to provide a rigorous mathematical treatment of the non-linear stochastic filtering problem using modern methods. Particular emphasis is placed on the theoretical analysis of numerical methods for the solution of the filtering problem via particle methods.

The book should provide sufficient background to enable study of the recent literature. While no prior knowledge of stochastic filtering is required, readers are assumed to be familiar with measure theory, probability theory and the basics of stochastic processes. Most of the technical results that are required are stated and proved in the appendices.

The book is intended as a reference for graduate students and researchers interested in the field. It is also suitable for use as a text for a graduate level course on stochastic filtering. Suitable exercises and solutions are included.

Inhalt
Filtering Theory.- The Stochastic Process ?.- The Filtering Equations.- Uniqueness of the Solution to the Zakai and the KushnerStratonovich Equations.- The Robust Representation Formula.- Finite-Dimensional Filters.- The Density of the Conditional Distribution of the Signal.- Numerical Algorithms.- Numerical Methods for Solving the Filtering Problem.- A Continuous Time Particle Filter.- Particle Filters in Discrete Time.