Bayesian inference for stochastic oscillatory systems using the phase-corrected Linear Noise Approximation

05/12/2022
by   Ben Swallow, et al.
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Likelihood-based inference in stochastic non-linear dynamical systems, such as those found in chemical reaction networks and biological clock systems, is inherently complex and has largely been limited to small and unrealistically simple systems. Recent advances in analytically tractable approximations to the underlying conditional probability distributions enable long-term dynamics to be accurately modelled, and make the large number of model evaluations required for exact Bayesian inference much more feasible. We propose a new methodology for inference in stochastic non-linear dynamical systems exhibiting oscillatory behaviour and show the parameters in these models can be realistically estimated from simulated data. Preliminary analyses based on the Fisher Information Matrix of the model can guide the implementation of Bayesian inference. We show that this parameter sensitivity analysis can predict which parameters are practically identifiable. Several Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms are compared, with our results suggesting a parallel tempering algorithm consistently gives the best approach for these systems, which are shown to frequently exhibit multi-modal posterior distributions.

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