The asymptotic behavior, as $T\to \infty $, of some functionals of the form $I_{T}(t)=F_{T}(\xi _{T}(t))+{\int _{0}^{t}}g_{T}(\xi _{T}(s))\hspace{0.1667em}dW_{T}(s)$, $t\ge 0$ is studied. Here $\xi _{T}(t)$ is the solution to the time-inhomogeneous Itô stochastic differential equation
$T>0$ is a parameter, $a_{T}(t,x),x\in \mathbb{R}$ are measurable functions, $|a_{T}(t,x)|\le C_{T}$ for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$ and $t\ge 0$, $W_{T}(t)$ are standard Wiener processes, $F_{T}(x),x\in \mathbb{R}$ are continuous functions, $g_{T}(x),x\in \mathbb{R}$ are measurable locally bounded functions, and everything is real-valued. The explicit form of the limiting processes for $I_{T}(t)$ is established under nonregular dependence of $a_{T}(t,x)$ and $g_{T}(x)$ on the parameter T.
We extend the Poincaré–Borel lemma to a weak approximation of a Brownian motion via simple functionals of uniform distributions on n-spheres in the Skorokhod space $D([0,1])$. This approach is used to simplify the proof of the self-normalized Donsker theorem in Csörgő et al. (2003). Some notes on spheres with respect to $\ell _{p}$-norms are given.
In the paper we study the models of time-changed Poisson and Skellam-type processes, where the role of time is played by compound Poisson-Gamma subordinators and their inverse (or first passage time) processes. We obtain explicitly the probability distributions of considered time-changed processes and discuss their properties.
The paper deals with bonus–malus systems with different claim types and varying deductibles. The premium relativities are softened for the policyholders who are in the malus zone and these policyholders are subject to per claim deductibles depending on their levels in the bonus–malus scale and the types of the reported claims. We introduce such bonus–malus systems and study their basic properties. In particular, we investigate when it is possible to introduce varying deductibles, what restrictions we have and how we can do this. Moreover, we deal with the special case where varying deductibles are applied to the claims reported by policyholders occupying the highest level in the bonus–malus scale and consider two allocation principles for the deductibles. Finally, numerical illustrations are presented.
In this paper we propose a multi-state model for the evaluation of the conversion option contract. The multi-state model is based on age-indexed semi-Markov chains that are able to reproduce many important aspects that influence the valuation of the option such as the duration problem, the time non-homogeneity and the ageing effect. The value of the conversion option is evaluated after the formal description of this contract.
In this paper we develop a general framework for quantifying how binary risk factors jointly influence a binary outcome. Our key result is an additive expansion of odds ratios as a sum of marginal effects and interaction terms of varying order. These odds ratio expansions are used for estimating the excess odds ratio, attributable proportion and synergy index for a case-control dataset by means of maximum likelihood from a logistic regression model. The confidence intervals associated with these estimates of joint effects and interaction of risk factors rely on the delta method. Our methodology is illustrated with a large Nordic meta dataset for multiple sclerosis. It combines four studies, with a total of 6265 cases and 8401 controls. It has three risk factors (smoking and two genetic factors) and a number of other confounding variables.
Let $(X_{k},\xi _{k})_{k\in \mathbb{N}}$ be a sequence of independent copies of a pair $(X,\xi )$ where X is a random process with paths in the Skorokhod space $D[0,\infty )$ and ξ is a positive random variable. The random process with immigration $(Y(u))_{u\in \mathbb{R}}$ is defined as the a.s. finite sum $Y(u)=\sum _{k\ge 0}X_{k+1}(u-\xi _{1}-\cdots -\xi _{k})\mathbb{1}_{\{\xi _{1}+\cdots +\xi _{k}\le u\}}$. We obtain a functional limit theorem for the process $(Y(ut))_{u\ge 0}$, as $t\to \infty $, when the law of ξ belongs to the domain of attraction of an α-stable law with $\alpha \in (0,1)$, and the process X oscillates moderately around its mean $\mathbb{E}[X(t)]$. In this situation the process $(Y(ut))_{u\ge 0}$, when scaled appropriately, converges weakly in the Skorokhod space $D(0,\infty )$ to a fractionally integrated inverse stable subordinator.
A random flight on a plane with non-isotropic displacements at the moments of direction changes is considered. In the case of exponentially distributed flight lengths a Gaussian limit theorem is proved for the position of a particle in the scheme of series when jump lengths and non-isotropic displacements tend to zero. If the flight lengths have a folded Cauchy distribution the limiting distribution of the particle position is a convolution of the circular bivariate Cauchy distribution with a Gaussian law.
Let $\{\xi _{1},\xi _{2},\dots \}$ be a sequence of independent random variables, and η be a counting random variable independent of this sequence. In addition, let $S_{0}:=0$ and $S_{n}:=\xi _{1}+\xi _{2}+\cdots +\xi _{n}$ for $n\geqslant 1$. We consider conditions for random variables $\{\xi _{1},\xi _{2},\dots \}$ and η under which the distribution functions of the random maximum $\xi _{(\eta )}:=\max \{0,\xi _{1},\xi _{2},\dots ,\xi _{\eta }\}$ and of the random maximum of sums $S_{(\eta )}:=\max \{S_{0},S_{1},S_{2},\dots ,S_{\eta }\}$ belong to the class of consistently varying distributions. In our consideration the random variables $\{\xi _{1},\xi _{2},\dots \}$ are not necessarily identically distributed.