Algebraic bounds of Fréchet classes of copulas can be derived from the fundamental attributes of the associated copulas. A minimal system of algebraic bounds and related basic bounds can be defined using properties of pointed convex polyhedral cones and their relationship with non-negative solutions of systems of linear homogeneous Diophantine equations, largely studied in Combinatorics. The basic bounds are an algebraic improving of the Fréchet-Hoeffding bounds. We provide conditions of compatibility...

We consider semi-Markov control models with Borel state and action spaces, possibly unbounded costs, and holding times with a generalized exponential distribution with unknown mean θ. Assuming that such a distribution does not depend on the state-action pairs, we introduce a Bayesian estimation procedure for θ, which combined with a variant of the vanishing discount factor approach yields average cost optimal policies.

The purpose of this paper is to study Bayesian like R- and M-estimators of change point(s). These estimators have smaller variance than the related argmax type estimators. Confidence intervals for the change point based on the exchangeability arguments are constructed. Finally, theoretical results are illustrated on the real data set.

In the reliability modeling field, we sometimes encounter systems with uncertain structures, and the use of fault trees and reliability diagrams is not possible. To overcome this problem, Bayesian approaches offer a considerable efficiency in this context. This paper introduces recent contributions in the field of reliability modeling with the Bayesian network approach. Bayesian reliability models are applied to systems with Weibull distribution of failure. To achieve the formulation of the reliability...

The stable fragmentation with index of self-similarity α∈[−1/2, 0) is derived by looking at the masses of the subtrees formed by discarding the parts of a (1+α)−1–stable continuum random tree below height t, for t≥0. We give a detailed limiting description of the distribution of such a fragmentation, (F(t), t≥0), as it approaches its time of extinction, ζ. In particular, we show that t1/αF((ζ−t)+) converges in distribution as t→0 to a non-trivial limit. In order to prove this, we go further and...

The aim of this short note is to study the behavior of the weighted empirical measures of the decreasing step Euler scheme of a one-dimensional diffusion process having multiple invariant measures. This situation can occur when the drift and the diffusion coefficient are vanish simultaneously.

A new point process is proposed which can be viewed either as a Boolean cluster model with two cluster modes or as a $p$-thinned Neyman-Scott cluster process with the retention of the original parent point. Voronoi tessellation generated by such a point process has extremely high coefficients of variation of cell volumes as well as of profile areas and lengths in the planar and line induced tessellations. An approximate numerical model of tessellation characteristics is developed for the case of small...

The necessary and sufficient condition for a function $f:(0,1)\to [0,1]$ to be Borel measurable (given by Theorem stated below) provides a technique to prove (in Corollary 2) the existence of a Borel measurable map $H:{\{0,1\}}^{\mathbb{N}}\to {\{0,1\}}^{\mathbb{N}}$ such that $ℒ\left(H\left({\mathbf{\text{X}}}^p\right)\right)=ℒ\left({\mathbf{\text{X}}}^{1/2}\right)$ holds for each $p\in (0,1)$, where ${\mathbf{\text{X}}}^p=(X_1^p,X_2^p,...)$ denotes Bernoulli sequence of random variables with $P[X_i^p=1]=p$.

The autoregressive process takes an important part in predicting problems leading to decision making. In practice, we use the least squares method to estimate the parameter θ̃ of the first-order autoregressive process taking values in a real separable Banach space B (ARB(1)), if it satisfies the following relation: $X{̃}_t=\theta ̃X{̃}_{t-1}+\epsilon {̃}_t$. In this paper we study the convergence in distribution of the linear operator $I(\theta {̃}_T,\theta ̃)=(\theta {̃}_T-\theta ̃)\theta {̃}^{T-2}$ for ||θ̃|| > 1 and so we construct inequalities of Bernstein type for this operator.