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Re: extremi of stochastic processes

To: Jewel Bright <jwlbright@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: extremi of stochastic processes
From: Janusz Kawczak <jkawczak@uncc.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:13:41 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
In-reply-to: <20060802174207.85897.qmail@web38702.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <20060802174207.85897.qmail@web38702.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
You can start with Berman, S.M., Sojourns and Extremes of Stochastic
Processes, The Wadworth and Brooks, Probability Series, 1992. Also, look
for keywords: Crossings of a Level, Rice's Formulae, Rice Series, to begin
with.

- Janusz

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Jewel Bright wrote:

> My question, I believe, is a simple one for professionals in 
> statistics/random processes.
>   Suppose I have a stochastic process described by the Ito SDE. Let's for 
> simplicity assume that it is an Ornstein-Ulenbeck Process
>   dx(t)=-kx(t)dt+bdW(t)
>   I need to study a discrete process associated with the extrema of this 
> process.
>   In particular, I need to know the distribution of spacings between these 
> extrema.
>   Note, I am not asking here about any kind of data manipulation or 
> estimation work.
>   I am asking about theory.
>
>   Can anybody advise me any book/papers or other sources which are dealing 
> with this kind of problems? Or correct key words/established name of theory 
> which studies this subject?
>   Thanks
>   Jewel
>
>
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