On a point process with independent locations

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 435-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Isham

A class of point processes is considered, in which the locations of the points are independent random variables. In particular some properties of the process in which the distribution function of the position of the nth event is the n-fold convolution of some distribution function F, are investigated. It is shown that, under fairly general conditions, the process remote from the origin will be asymptotically Poisson. It is also shown that the variance of the number of events in the interval (0, t] is . Some generalisations are discussed.

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Isham

A class of point processes is considered, in which the locations of the points are independent random variables. In particular some properties of the process in which the distribution function of the position of the nth event is the n-fold convolution of some distribution function F, are investigated. It is shown that, under fairly general conditions, the process remote from the origin will be asymptotically Poisson. It is also shown that the variance of the number of events in the interval (0, t] is . Some generalisations are discussed.


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.


Author(s):  
Florence Merlevède ◽  
Magda Peligrad ◽  
Sergey Utev

In this chapter, we treat several examples of stationary processes which are asymptotically negatively dependent and for which the results of Chapter 9 apply. Many systems in nature are complex, consisting of the contributions of several independent components. Our first examples are functions of two independent sequences, one negatively dependent and one interlaced mixing. For instance, the class of asymptotic negatively dependent random variables is used to treat functions of a determinantal point process and a Gaussian process with a positive continuous spectral density. Another example is point processes based on asymptotically negatively or positively associated sequences and displaced according to a Gaussian sequence with a positive continuous spectral density. Other examples include exchangeable processes, the weighted empirical process, and the exchangeable determinantal point process.


1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 202-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kimeldorf ◽  
Peter F. Thall

It has been recently proved that if N, X 1, X 2, … are non-constant mutually independent random variables with X 1,X 2, … identically distributed and N non-negative and integer-valued, then the independence of and implies that X 1 is Bernoulli and N is Poisson. A well-known theorem in point process theory due to Fichtner characterizes a Poisson process in terms of a sum of independent thinnings. In the present article, simultaneous generalizations of both of these results are provided, including a joint characterization of the multinomial distribution and the Poisson process.


1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frans A. Boshuizen ◽  
Robert P. Kertz

In this paper, in work strongly related with that of Coffman et al. [5], Bruss and Robertson [2], and Rhee and Talagrand [15], we focus our interest on an asymptotic distributional comparison between numbers of ‘smallest’ i.i.d. random variables selected by either on-line or off-line policies. Let X1,X2,… be a sequence of i.i.d. random variables with distribution function F(x), and let X1,n,…,Xn,n be the sequence of order statistics of X1,…,Xn. For a sequence (cn)n≥1 of positive constants, the smallest fit off-line counting random variable is defined by Ne(cn) := max {j ≤ n : X1,n + … + Xj,n ≤ cn}. The asymptotic joint distributional comparison is given between the off-line count Ne(cn) and on-line counts Nnτ for ‘good’ sequential (on-line) policies τ satisfying the sum constraint ∑j≥1XτjI(τj≤n) ≤ cn. Specifically, for such policies τ, under appropriate conditions on the distribution function F(x) and the constants (cn)n≥1, we find sequences of positive constants (Bn)n≥1, (Δn)n≥1 and (Δ'n)n≥1 such that for some non-degenerate random variables W and W'. The major tools used in the paper are convergence of point processes to Poisson random measure and continuous mapping theorems, strong approximation results of the normalized empirical process by Brownian bridges, and some renewal theory.


1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kimeldorf ◽  
Peter F. Thall

It has been recently proved that if N, X1, X2, … are non-constant mutually independent random variables with X1,X2, … identically distributed and N non-negative and integer-valued, then the independence of and implies that X1 is Bernoulli and N is Poisson. A well-known theorem in point process theory due to Fichtner characterizes a Poisson process in terms of a sum of independent thinnings. In the present article, simultaneous generalizations of both of these results are provided, including a joint characterization of the multinomial distribution and the Poisson process.


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