SMM.jl: Simulated Method of Moments for Julia
Abstract
Notice: this package was previously called MomentOpt.jl.
This package provides a Julia infrastructure for Simulated Method of Moments estimation, or other problems where we want to optimize a non-differentiable objective function. The setup is suitable for all kinds of likelihood-free estimators - in general, those require evaluating the objective at many regions. The user can supply their own algorithms for generating successive new parameter guesses. We provide a set of MCMC template algorithms. The code can be run in serial or on a cluster.