03931nam 2200613 450 991081726480332120170816143234.01-4704-0528-8(CKB)3360000000465106(EBL)3114270(SSID)ssj0000888777(PQKBManifestationID)11530338(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000888777(PQKBWorkID)10866475(PQKB)10075383(MiAaPQ)EBC3114270(RPAM)15445801(PPN)195418115(EXLCZ)99336000000046510620150416h20092009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAsymptotic expansions for infinite weighted convolutions of heavy tail distributions and application /Ph. Barbe, W.P. McCormickProvidence, Rhode Island :American Mathematical Society,2009.©20091 online resource (133 p.)Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society,0065-9266 ;Number 922Description based upon print version of record.0-8218-4259-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1. Prolegomenom""; ""1.2. Mathematical overview and heuristics""; ""2. Main result""; ""2.1. Some notation""; ""2.2. Asymptotic scales""; ""2.3. The Laplace characters""; ""2.4. Smoothly varying functions of finite order""; ""2.5. Asymptotic expansion for in finite weighted convolution""; ""3. Implementing the expansion""; ""3.1. How many terms are in the expansion?""; ""3.2. [sub(*)]-Asymptotic scales and functions of class m""; ""3.3. Tail calculus: From Laplace characters to linear algebra""; ""3.4. Some examples""""3.5. Two terms expansion and second order regular variation""""3.6. Some open questions""; ""4. Applications""; ""4.1. ARMA models""; ""4.2. Tail index estimation""; ""4.3. Randomly weighted sums""; ""4.4. Compound sums""; ""4.5. Queueing theory""; ""4.6. Branching processes""; ""4.7. Infinitely divisible distributions""; ""4.8. Implicit transient renewal equation and iterative systems""; ""5. Preparing the proof""; ""5.1. Properties of Laplace characters""; ""5.2. Properties of smoothly varying functions of finite order""; ""6. Proof in the positive case""""6.1. Decomposition of the convolution into integral and multiplication operators""""6.2. Organizing the proof""; ""6.3. Regular variation and basic tail estimates""; ""6.4. The fundamental estimate""; ""6.5. Basic lemmas""; ""6.6. Inductions""; ""6.7. Conclusion""; ""7. Removing the sign restriction on the random variables""; ""7.1. Elementary properties of U[sub(H)]""; ""7.2. Basic expansion of U[sub(H)]""; ""7.3. A technical lemma""; ""7.4. Conditional expansion and removing conditioning""; ""8. Removing the sign restriction on the constants""""8.1. Neglecting terms involving the multiplication operators""""8.2. Substituting H[sup((k))] and G[sup((k))] by their expansions""; ""9. Removing the smoothness restriction""; ""Appendix. Maple code""; ""Bibliography""Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ;Number 922.Distribution (Probability theory)Mathematical modelsAsymptotic expansionsStochastic processesDistribution (Probability theory)Mathematical models.Asymptotic expansions.Stochastic processes.519.2/4Barbe Philippe105222McCormick William P.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817264803321Asymptotic expansions for infinite weighted convolutions of heavy tail distributions and application4034354UNINA