An extremal markovian sequence

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 219-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Teresa Alpuim

In this paper we consider an independent and identically distributed sequence {Yn } with common distribution function F(x) and a random variable X 0, independent of the Yi 's, and define a Markovian sequence {Xn } as Xi = X 0, if i = 0, Xi = k max{Xi − 1, Yi }, if i ≧ 1, k ∈ R, 0 < k < 1. For this sequence we evaluate basic distributional formulas and give conditions on F(x) for the sequence to possess a stationary distribution. We prove that for any distribution function H(x) with left endpoint greater than or equal to zero for which log H(ex ) is concave it is possible to construct such a stationary sequence with marginal distributions equal to it. We study the limit laws for extremes and kth order statistics.

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Teresa Alpuim

In this paper we consider an independent and identically distributed sequence {Yn} with common distribution function F(x) and a random variable X0, independent of the Yi's, and define a Markovian sequence {Xn} as Xi = X0, if i = 0, Xi = k max{Xi− 1, Yi}, if i ≧ 1, k ∈ R, 0 < k < 1. For this sequence we evaluate basic distributional formulas and give conditions on F(x) for the sequence to possess a stationary distribution. We prove that for any distribution function H(x) with left endpoint greater than or equal to zero for which log H(ex) is concave it is possible to construct such a stationary sequence with marginal distributions equal to it. We study the limit laws for extremes and kth order statistics.


1987 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip S. Griffin ◽  
William E. Pruitt

Let X, X1, X2,… be a sequence of non-degenerate i.i.d. random variables with common distribution function F. For 1 ≤ j ≤ n, let mn(j) be the number of Xi satisfying either |Xi| > |Xj|, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, or |Xi| = |Xj|, 1 ≤ i ≤ j, and let (r)Xn = Xj if mn(j) = r. Thus (r)Xn is the rth largest random variable in absolute value from amongst X1, …, Xn with ties being broken according to the order in which the random variables occur. Set (r)Sn = (r+1)Xn + … + (n)Xn and write Sn for (0)Sn. We will refer to (r)Sn as a trimmed sum.


2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-380
Author(s):  
Ebrahim Amini-Seresht ◽  
Yiying Zhang

This paper discusses the stochastic monotonicity property of the conditional order statistics from independent multiple-outlier scale variables in terms of the likelihood ratio order. Let X1, …, Xn be a set of non-negative independent random variables with Xi, i=1, …, p, having common distribution function F(λ1x), and Xj, j=p+1, …, n, having common distribution function F(λ2x), where F(·) denotes the baseline distribution. Let Xi:n(p, q) be the ith smallest order statistics from this sample. Denote by $X_{i,n}^{s}(p,q)\doteq [X_{i:n}(p,q)|X_{i-1:n}(p,q)=s]$. Under the assumptions that xf′(x)/f(x) is decreasing in x∈ℛ+, λ1≤λ2 and s1≤s2, it is shown that $X_{i:n}^{s_{1}}(p+k,q-k)$ is larger than $X_{i:n}^{s_{2}}(p,q)$ according to the likelihood ratio order for any 2≤i≤n and k=1, 2, …, q. Some parametric families of distributions are also provided to illustrate the theoretical results.


1995 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sándor Csörgő ◽  
László Viharos

Let X, X1, X2, …, be independent random variables with a common distribution function F(x) = P {X ≤ x}, x∈ℝ, and for each n∈ℕ, let X1, n ≤ … ≤ Xn, n denote the order statistics pertaining to the sample X1, …, Xn. We assume that 1–F(x) = x−1/cl(x), 0 < x < ∞, where l is some function slowly varying at infinity and c > 0 is any fixed number. The class of all such distribution functions will be denoted by .


2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Liu ◽  
Tiantian Mao ◽  
Taizhong Hu

Let X1, …, Xn be non-negative, independent and identically distributed random variables with a common distribution function F, and denote by X1:n ≤ ··· ≤ Xn:n the corresponding order statistics. In this paper, we investigate the second-order regular variation (2RV) of the tail probabilities of Xk:n and Xj:n − Xi:n under the assumption that $\bar {F}$ is of the 2RV, where 1 ≤ k ≤ n and 1 ≤ i < j ≤ n.


1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minoru Yoshida

Before some random moment θ, independent identically distributed random variables x1, · ··, xθ–1 with common distribution function μ (dx) appear consecutively. After the moment θ, independent random variables xθ, xθ+1, · ·· have another common distribution function f (x)μ (dx). Our information about θ can be constructed only by successively observed values of the x's.In this paper we find an optimal stopping policy by which we can maximize the probability that the quantity associated with the stopping time is the largest of all θ + m – 1 quantities for a given integer m.


1971 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-452
Author(s):  
M. V. Menon ◽  
V. Seshadri

Let X1, X2, …, be a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables, with the common distribution function F(x). The sequence is said to be normally attracted to a stable law V with characteristic exponent α, if for some an (converges in distribution to V). Necessary and sufficient conditions for normal attraction are known (cf [1, p. 181]).


1994 ◽  
Vol 31 (01) ◽  
pp. 256-261
Author(s):  
S. R. Adke ◽  
C. Chandran

Let {ξ n , n ≧1} be a sequence of independent real random variables, F denote the common distribution function of identically distributed random variables ξ n , n ≧1 and let ξ 1 have an arbitrary distribution. Define Xn+ 1 = k max(Xn, ξ n +1), Yn + 1 = max(Yn, ξ n +1) – c, Un +1 = l min(Un, ξ n +1), Vn+ 1 = min(Vn, ξ n +1) + c, n ≧ 1, 0 &lt; k &lt; 1, l &gt; 1, 0 &lt; c &lt; ∞, and X 1 = Υ 1 = U 1 = V 1 = ξ 1. We establish conditions under which the limit law of max(X 1, · ··, Xn ) coincides with that of max(ξ 2, · ··, ξ n+ 1) when both are appropriately normed. A similar exercise is carried out for the extreme statistics max(Y 1, · ··, Yn ), min(U 1,· ··, Un ) and min(V 1, · ··, Vn ).


2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (01) ◽  
pp. 238-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken R. Duffy ◽  
Claudio Macci ◽  
Giovanni Luca Torrisi

We consider the sample paths of the order statistics of independent and identically distributed random variables with common distribution function F. If F is strictly increasing but possibly having discontinuities, we prove that the sample paths of the order statistics satisfy the large deviation principle in the Skorokhod M 1 topology. Sanov's theorem is deduced in the Skorokhod M'1 topology as a corollary to this result. A number of illustrative examples are presented, including applications to the sample paths of trimmed means and Hill plots.


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