Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications

The expected exit time from the interval $[-1,1]$ is investigated for an autoregressive process defined recursively by Here, ε is a small positive parameter, $f:\mathbb{R}\mapsto \mathbb{R}$ is usually a contractive function and ${\{{\xi _{n}}\}_{n\ge 1}}$ is a sequence of i.i.d. random variables. In this paper, previous results for a linear function $f(x)=ax$ are extended to more general cases, with the main focus on piecewise linear functions.