Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec

16 septembre 2016 de 16 h 00 à 18 h 00 (heure de Montréal/HNE) Sur place

Statistical Inference for fractional diffusion processes

Colloque par B.L.S. Prakasa Rao (CR Rao Advanced Institute, Hyderabad, India)

There are some time series which exhibit long­range dependence as noticed by Hurst in his investigations of river water levels along Nile river. Long­range dependence is connected with the concept of self­similarity in that increments of a self­similar process with stationary increments exhibit long­range dependence under some conditions. Fractional Brownian motion is an example of such a process. We discuss statistical inference for stochastic processes modeled by stochastic differential equations driven by a fractional Brownian motion. These processes are termed as fractional diffusion processes. Since fractional Brownian motion is not a semimartingale, it is not possible to extend the notion of a stochastic integral with respect to a fractional Brownian motion following the ideas of Ito integration. There are other methods of extending integration with respect to a fractional Brownian motion. Suppose a complete path of a fractional diffusion process is observed over a finite time interval. We will present some results on inference problems for such processes.

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Université Concordia, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve O., salle LB­921.04