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Robert","Ritabrata Dutta"],"authorCount":4,"venue":"Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science","year":2026,"type":"article","citedBy":0,"keywords":["Bayesian data assimilation","sequential Monte Carlo","intractable likelihood","complex dynamical systems","time series forecasting","meteorological observations"],"topic":{"topic":"Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods","subfield":"Statistics and Probability","field":"Mathematics","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-22T01:01:57.375Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"Under mild conditions, prequential loss minimisers and posteriors concentrate near parameters with the best predictive performance, even if the model is misspecified.","did":"The authors built a Bayesian-style update from a predictive-sequential loss, proved a theoretical result about it, and used sequential Monte Carlo samplers. 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