On convergence in variation of the distributions of multivariate point processes
On convergence in variation of the distributions of multivariate point processes
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论多元点过程分布变化的收敛性
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1983
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通讯作者:
R. Liptser
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作者:
Y. Kabanov;R. Liptser
The aim of the present paper is to establish necessary and sufficient condition for convergence in variation of the distributions of multivariate point processes given by their compensators. The main result is the following: if the limiting compensator is finite then the convergence in variation holds if and only if the variations of the differences between compensators tends to zero "in probability". The precise statement is given in Theorem 1. It extends Theorems 6 and 7 of [6] where the case of counting processes has been considered under assumption that the limiting process has a nonrandom compensator, and is therefore a process with independent increments. The proof of the part A) of Theorem 1 is based on important inequalities which give upper bounds for the variation distance between compensators (Theorem 2). The technique used in the proof of Theorem 2 originates from the proof of Theorem 2 in [-8] and based heavily on the structure and properties of a density process. (It is interesting to note that, in contrast with Theorem 1, sufficient conditions for weak convergence of finite-dimensional distributions for counting processes in terms of their compensators (see [1,8]) are not necessary. There is a counter example communicated to us by E.L. Presman and I.M. Sonin.) As an example of an application of Theorem 2, we give an estimate of the rate of convergence of an empirical distribution function to a Poisson process. The structure of the paper is the following. In Sect. 2 we give the statement of principle results. The Sects. 3 and 4 contain the proofs of Theorem 2 and 1. The Sect. 5 is devoted to some generalizations of Theorems 1 and 2. In Sect. 6 we give an example.