Statistical criteria for choice of model 211
we obtain the final expression for the function of the information criterion
IC(S
m
,
ˆ
θ) = −2hnB(
θ
θ
0
,
ˆ
θ
θ)i = −2 ln p(n,
ˆ
θ) + 2S
m
. (7.17)
The first term from the right hand side of this expression is equal to the max-
imum value of the likelihood function with an opposite sign. The second term is
equal to a doubled length of the vector θ. The function IC(S
m
,
ˆ
θ) can be considered
as discord measure of the identifiable model.
The criterion application is reduced to following. To choose the competing mod-
els m = 1, 2, . . . , M , with various lengths of the parameter vectors S
1
, S
2
, . . . , S
M
.
We calculate the estimates by the maximum likelihood method
ˆ
θ
m
and using the
formula (7.17) to find IC(S
m
,
ˆ
θ
θ). In accordance with the criterion, we choose the
model connected with a maximum value of IC, i.e.
S
m
= arg max
m
[IC(S
m
,
ˆ
θ
m
)]. (7.18)
The relevant advantage of the considered criterion is the actuation of the choice
of dimensionality of the model during the estimation. A quality of the choice is
estimated by an absolute value of the function IC in the maximum point on m.
The function IC is equal, within a constant factor, to the negative entropy. The
information criterion can be considered as a modification of the maximum entropy
method, which has a wide applying at the processing of geophysical data.
7.5 The Method of the Separation of Interfering Signals
The important step of the processing of geophysical data is the problem of the
separation of a geophysical field on its components. For example, one of the ob-
jectives of the analysis of a seismic field consists in the extraction of the reflected
waves which carry an information about parameters of the layered medium. In the
magnetometry the actual problem is the extraction of the fields produced by some
anomalies.
Let us consider the principles of the development of the iterative algorithm for
the separation of the interfering signals. We will find not only the signal parameters,
but to find also a number of the signals for the case of the representation of the
field model in the form
u
u
k
=
M
X
µ=1
f
f
f
µk
(
θ
θ
µ
) + ε
ε
ε
k
,
where θ
µ
is the unknown parameter vector for µ-th signal, εε
k
∈ N(0, R). For
example, in the case of seismic signals, we can write
f
µk
= kA
µ
ϕ(t
i
− τ
µ
− k∆xγ
µ
)k
n
i=1
.
To find the parameters we use the maximum likelihood method (see Sec. 6.2).
By analogy with the formula (6.5) we write the logarithmic likelihood function,