Coupling, Stationarity, and Regeneration

Coupling, Stationarity, and Regeneration
Hermann Thorisson, Hermann Tho ...
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Coupling, Stationarity, and Regeneration

This is a book on coupling, the method of establishing properties of random variables and processes (or any random things) through a joint construction on a common probability space. Coupling is a general method relevant in all fields of probabilistic inquiry; however, the main thrust is towards characterizations, approximations, asymptotics, and simulation. The book also includes self-contained treatments of stationarity (Palm theory) and regeneration (classical, wide-sense, time-inhomogeneous, and taboo regeneration). Other topics discussed are perfect simulation (MCMC) and quasi-stationarity. Links are made to several fields such as quantum physics and nonlocality, self-similarity, exchangeability, relativity, and queueing theory. The book is organized in chapters as follows: 1. Random Variables; 2. Markov Chains and Random Walks; 3. Random Elements; 4. Stochastic Processes; 5. Shift-Coupling; 6. Markov Processes; 7. Transformation Coupling; 8. Stationarity, the Palm Dualities; 9. The Palm Dualities in Higher Dimensions; 10. Regeneration. The book should be of interest to students and researchers in probability, stochastic modelling, and mathematical statistics. It is written with a Ph.D. student in mind, and the first two chapters can be read at a master's level and even at an advanced undergraduate level. The book is mathematically self-contained, relying only on the measure-theoretic basics and on elementary Markov chain theory. Hermann Thorisson received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics, University of Göteborg, in 1981. He worked at the University of Göteborg, at Chalmers University of Technology, and at Stanford University, until returning to his home country to become a research professor at the Science Institute, University of Iceland.

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Language
English
Pages
517

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Coupling, Stationarity, and Regeneration
2000, Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
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Table of Contents

Random Variables
Markov Chains and Random Walks
Random Elements
Stochastic Processes
Shift-Coupling
Markov Processes
Transformation Coupling
Stationarity, the Palm Dualities
The Palm Dualities in Higher Dimensions
Regeneration.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, NY
Series
Probability and its Applications, A Series of the Applied Probability Trust

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
519.2
Library of Congress
QA273.A1-274.9, QA274-274.9

The Physical Object

Pagination
XIV, 517 p.
Number of pages
517

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL55676730M
ISBN 13
9781461212362, 9781461270553

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