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In most real world scenarios one is then interested in finding the most probable state within the state space, to provide the best estimate of the underlying problem, generally speaking, solving the state estimation problem.
In the discrete manner of a sample representation this is often done by providing a single value, also known as sample statistic, to serve as a \qq{best guess}.
This value is often calculated by means of simple parametric point estimators, \eg{} the weighted-average over all samples, the sample with the highest weight \cite{Fetzer2016OMC}.
This value is often calculated by means of simple parametric point estimators, \eg{} the weighted-average over all samples or, the sample with the highest weight \cite{Fetzer2016OMC}.
While such point estimators are computational fast and suitable most of the time, it is not uncommon that they fail to recover the state in more complex scenarios.
Especially time-sequential, non-linear and non-Gaussian state spaces, depending upon a high number of different sensor types, frequently suffer from a multimodal representation of the posterior distribution.
For example, in a localization scenario where a bimodal distribution represents the current posterior, a reliable position estimation is more likely to be at one of the modes, instead of somewhere in-between, like provided by a simple weighted-average estimation.
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%Für related work brauchen wir hier definitiv quellen. einige berechnen ja auch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_mean_and_covariance oder nehmen eine gewisse verteilung für die sample menge and und berechnen dort die parameter
It is obvious, that a computation of the full posterior could solve the above, but finding such an analytical solution is an intractable problem, which is the reason for applying a sample representation in the first place.
An alternative approach is to estimate the parameters of a specific parametric model based on the sample set, assuming that the unknown distribution is approximately a parametric distribution, \eg{} like the normal distribution.
A feasible alternative is to estimate the parameters of a specific parametric model based on the sample set, assuming that the unknown distribution is approximately a parametric distribution, \eg{} like the normal distribution.
Given the estimated parameters the most probable state can be obtained from the parameterized density function.
In the case of multi-modalities several parametric distributions can be combined into a mixture distribution.
%In the case of multi-modalities several parametric distributions can be combined into a mixture distribution.
However, parametric models fail when the assumption does not fit the underlying model.
For many real world problems assuming a parametric distribution is too limiting as the posterior is changing over time.
As a result, those techniques are not able to provide an accurate statement about the most probable state, rather causing misleading or false outcomes.