A Problem of Zolotarev and Analogs of Infinitely Divisible and Stable Distributions in a Scheme for Summing a Random Number of Random Variables

1985 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. Klebanov ◽  
G. M. Maniya ◽  
I. A. Melamed
Keyword(s):  
Random Number ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Stable Distributions ◽  
Infinitely Divisible

scholarly journals On Exact Sampling of Nonnegative Infinitely Divisible Random Variables

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 842-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyi Chi
Keyword(s):  
Basic Result ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Random Variable ◽  
Fixed Number ◽  
Rejection Sampling ◽  
Infinitely Divisible ◽  
Exact Sampling ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lévy Density

Nonnegative infinitely divisible (i.d.) random variables form an important class of random variables. However, when this type of random variable is specified via Lévy densities that have infinite integrals on (0, ∞), except for some special cases, exact sampling is unknown. We present a method that can sample a rather wide range of such i.d. random variables. A basic result is that, for any nonnegative i.d. random variable X with its Lévy density explicitly specified, if its distribution conditional on X ≤ r can be sampled exactly, where r > 0 is any fixed number, then X can be sampled exactly using rejection sampling, without knowing the explicit expression of the density of X. We show that variations of the result can be used to sample various nonnegative i.d. random variables.

A note on passage times and infinitely divisible distributions

1967 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 402-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Random Walk ◽  
Markov Process ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Independent Random Variables ◽  
Infinitely Divisible Distributions ◽  
Infinitely Divisible ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Mutually Independent ◽  
Passage Times

Let X(t) be the position at time t of a particle undergoing a simple symmetrical random walk in continuous time, i.e. the particle starts at the origin at time t = 0 and at times T1, T1 + T2, … it undergoes jumps ξ1, ξ2, …, where the time intervals T1, T2, … between successive jumps are mutually independent random variables each following the exponential density e–t while the jumps, which are independent of the τi, are mutually independent random variables with the distribution . The process X(t) is clearly a Markov process whose state space is the set of all integers.

The Esseen inequality for sums of a random number of differently distributed random variables

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 569-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kh. Batirov ◽  
D. V. Manevich ◽  
S. V. Nagaev
Keyword(s):  
Random Number ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Esseen Inequality ◽  
Inequality For Sums

The distribution of the maximum of a random number of random variables with applications

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 122-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janos Galambos
Keyword(s):  
Service Time ◽  
Joint Distribution ◽  
Random Number ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Stochastic Independence ◽  
Fixed Integer ◽  
Number Of Components ◽  
Distribution Of The Maximum ◽  
Distribution Of Elements ◽  
Mild Assumption

The asymptotic distribution of the maximum of a random number of random variables taken from the model below is shown to be the same as when their number is a fixed integer. Applications are indicated to determine the service time of a system of a large number of components, when the number of components to be serviced is not known in advance. A much slighter assumption is made than the stochastic independence of the periods of time needed for servicing the different components. In our model we assume that the random variables can be grouped into a number of subcollections with the following properties: (i) the random variables taken from different groups are asymptotically independent, (ii) the largest number of elements in a subgroup is of smaller order than the overall number of random variables. In addition, a very mild assumption is made for the joint distribution of elements from the same group.

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