A second order time discretization of the solution of the non-linear filtering problem

Abstract

The solution of the continuous time filtering problem can be represented as a ratio of two expectations of certain functionals of the signal process that are parametrized by the observation path. We introduce a new time discretisation of these functionals corresponding to a chosen partition of the time interval and show that the convergence rate of discretisation is proportional with the square of the mesh of the partition.

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