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Pairs of successes in Bernoulli trials and a new n-estimator for the binomial distribution

Wolfgang Kühne, Peter Neumann, Dietrich Stoyan, Helmut Stoyan (1994)

Applicationes Mathematicae

The problem of estimating the number, n, of trials, given a sequence of k independent success counts obtained by replicating the n-trial experiment is reconsidered in this paper. In contrast to existing methods it is assumed here that more information than usual is available: not only the numbers of successes are given but also the number of pairs of consecutive successes. This assumption is realistic in a class of problems of spatial statistics. There typically k = 1, in which case the classical...

Parallélisation d'une Combinaison des Méthodes de Monte-Carlo et Quasi-Monte-Carlo et Application aux Réseaux de Files d'Attente

Bruno Tuffin, Louis-Marie Le Ny (2010)

RAIRO - Operations Research

We propose a parallel algorithm which uses both Monte-Carlo and quasi-Monte-Carlo methods. A detailed analysis of this algorithm, followed by examples, shows that the estimator's efficiency is a linear function of the processor number. As a concrete application example, we evaluate performance measures of a multi-class queueing network in steady state.

Particle approximations of Lyapunov exponents connected to Schrödinger operators and Feynman–Kac semigroups

Pierre Del Moral, L. Miclo (2003)

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

We present an interacting particle system methodology for the numerical solving of the Lyapunov exponent of Feynman–Kac semigroups and for estimating the principal eigenvalue of Schrödinger generators. The continuous or discrete time models studied in this work consists of N interacting particles evolving in an environment with soft obstacles related to a potential function V . These models are related to genetic algorithms and Moran type particle schemes. Their choice is not unique. We will examine...

Particle approximations of Lyapunov exponents connected to Schrödinger operators and Feynman–Kac semigroups

Pierre Del Moral, L. Miclo (2010)

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

We present an interacting particle system methodology for the numerical solving of the Lyapunov exponent of Feynman–Kac semigroups and for estimating the principal eigenvalue of Schrödinger generators. The continuous or discrete time models studied in this work consists of N interacting particles evolving in an environment with soft obstacles related to a potential function V. These models are related to genetic algorithms and Moran type particle schemes. Their choice is not unique. We...

Probabilistic interpretation and random walk on spheres algorithms for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation in molecular dynamics

Mireille Bossy, Nicolas Champagnat, Sylvain Maire, Denis Talay (2010)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

Motivated by the development of efficient Monte Carlo methods for PDE models in molecular dynamics, we establish a new probabilistic interpretation of a family of divergence form operators with discontinuous coefficients at the interface of two open subsets of d . This family of operators includes the case of the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation used to compute the electrostatic free energy of a molecule. More precisely, we explicitly construct a Markov process whose infinitesimal generator...

Probabilistic methods for semilinear partial differential equations. Applications to finance

Dan Crisan, Konstantinos Manolarakis (2010)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

With the pioneering work of [Pardoux and Peng, Syst. Contr. Lett.14 (1990) 55–61; Pardoux and Peng, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences176 (1992) 200–217]. We have at our disposal stochastic processes which solve the so-called backward stochastic differential equations. These processes provide us with a Feynman-Kac representation for the solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) which appear in many applications in the field of Mathematical Finance....

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