Inference on the Hurst Parameter and the Variance of Diffusions Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion

Corinne Berzin author Alain Latour author José R León author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:29th Oct '14

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This book is devoted to a number of stochastic models that display scale invariance. It primarily focuses on three issues: probabilistic properties, statistical estimation and simulation of the processes considered.

It will be of interest to probability specialists, who will find here an uncomplicated presentation of statistics tools and to those statisticians who wants to tackle the most recent theories in probability in order to develop Central Limit Theorems in this context; both groups will also benefit from the section on simulation. Algorithms are described in great detail, with a focus on procedures that is not usually found in mathematical treatises. The models studied are fractional Brownian motions and processes that derive from them through stochastic differential equations.

Concerning the proofs of the limit theorems, the “Fourth Moment Theorem” is systematically used, as it produces rapid and helpful proofs that can serve as models for the future. Readers will also find elegant and new proofs for almost sure convergence.

The use of diffusion models driven by fractional noise has been popular for more than two decades now. This popularity is due both to the mathematics itself and to its fields of application. With regard to the latter, fractional models are useful for modeling real-life events such as value assets in financial markets, chaos in quantum physics, river flows through time, irregular images, weather events and contaminant diffusio

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“I can recommend it to statisticians, specialists in probability and, in general, any person interested in simulations and algorithms for fBm. The book mainly develops estimation techniques for the Hurst parameter H and the local variance or volatility of four models of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by fractional noise.” (María J. Garrido-Atienza, Mathematical Reviews, August, 2015)

ISBN: 9783319078748

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 314g

169 pages

2014 ed.