In this paper, the 2-D random closed sets (RACS) are studied by means of the Feret diameter, also known as the caliper diameter. More specifically, it is shown that a 2-D symmetric convex RACS can be approximated as precisely as we want by some random zonotopes (polytopes formed by the Minkowski sum of line segments) in terms of the Hausdorff distance. Such an approximation is fully defined from the Feret diameter of the 2-D convex RACS. Particularly, the moments of the random vector representing the face lengths of the zonotope approximation are related to the moments of the Feret diameter random process of the RACS.
In this paper, we consider two time-inhomogeneous Markov chains ${X_{t}^{(l)}}$, $l\in \{1,2\}$, with discrete time on a general state space. We assume the existence of some renewal set C and investigate the time of simultaneous renewal, that is, the first positive time when the chains hit the set C simultaneously. The initial distributions for both chains may be arbitrary. Under the condition of stochastic domination and nonlattice condition for both renewal processes, we derive an upper bound for the expectation of the simultaneous renewal time. Such a bound was calculated for two time-inhomogeneous birth–death Markov chains.
Our aim in this paper is to establish some strong stability properties of a solution of a stochastic differential equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion for which the pathwise uniqueness holds. The results are obtained using Skorokhod’s selection theorem.
We consider a multivariable functional errors-in-variables model $AX\approx B$, where the data matrices A and B are observed with errors, and a matrix parameter X is to be estimated. A goodness-of-fit test is constructed based on the total least squares estimator. The proposed test is asymptotically chi-squared under null hypothesis. The power of the test under local alternatives is discussed.
with multiplicative stochastic volatility, where Y is some adapted stochastic process. We prove existence–uniqueness results for weak and strong solutions of this equation under various conditions on the process Y and the coefficients a, $\sigma _{1}$, and $\sigma _{2}$. Also, we study the strong consistency of the maximum likelihood estimator for the unknown parameter θ. We suppose that Y is in turn a solution of some diffusion SDE. Several examples of the main equation and of the process Y are provided supplying the strong consistency.
This paper is devoted to investigation of supremum of averaged deviations $|X(t)-f(t)-\int _{\mathbb{T}}(X(u)-f(u))\hspace{0.1667em}\mathrm{d}\mu (u)/\mu (\mathbb{T})|$ of a stochastic process from Orlicz space of random variables using the method of majorizing measures. An estimate of distribution of supremum of deviations $|X(t)-f(t)|$ is derived. A special case of the $L_{q}$ space is considered. As an example, the obtained results are applied to stochastic processes from the $L_{2}$ space with known covariance functions.
with random source f. The latter is, in certain sense, a symmetric α-stable spatial white noise multiplied by some regular function σ. We define a candidate solution U to the equation via Poisson’s formula and prove that the corresponding expression is well defined at each point almost surely, although the exceptional set may depend on the particular point $(x,t)$. We further show that U is Hölder continuous in time but with probability 1 is unbounded in any neighborhood of each point where σ does not vanish. Finally, we prove that U is a generalized solution to the equation.
where the sequence $\{a_{n}\}$ converges in some sense to $(c_{-}\mathbb{1}_{x<0}+c_{+}\mathbb{1}_{x>0})/x+\gamma \delta _{0}$. Here $\delta _{0}$ is the Dirac delta function concentrated at zero. A limit of $\{X_{n}\}$ may be a Bessel process, a skew Bessel process, or a mixture of Bessel processes.
We study properties of distributions of random variables with independent identically distributed symbols of generalized Lüroth series (GLS) expansions (the family of GLS-expansions contains Lüroth expansion and $Q_{\infty }$- and ${G_{\infty }^{2}}$-expansions). To this end, we explore fractal properties of the family of Cantor-like sets $C[\mathit{GLS},V]$ consisting of real numbers whose GLS-expansions contain only symbols from some countable set $V\subset N\cup \{0\}$, and derive exact formulae for the determination of the Hausdorff–Besicovitch dimension of $C[\mathit{GLS},V]$. Based on these results, we get general formulae for the Hausdorff–Besicovitch dimension of the spectra of random variables with independent identically distributed GLS-symbols for the case where all but countably many points from the unit interval belong to the basis cylinders of GLS-expansions.