The Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance as criterion of choice of estimators with application to the first order auto-regressive case : a Monte Carlo study
The two-sample Lepage test, devised for testing equality of the location and scale parameters against the alternative that at least for one of the parameters the equality does not hold, is extended to the general case of sampled populations. It is shown that its limiting distribution is the chi-square distribution with degrees of freedom. This -sample statistic is shown to yield consistent test and a formula for its noncentrality parameter under Pitman alternatives is derived. For some particular...
The Tree-Grid method is a novel explicit convergent scheme for solving stochastic control problems or Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with one space dimension. One of the characteristics of the scheme is that the stencil size is dependent on space, control and possibly also on time. Because of the dependence on the control variable, it is not trivial to solve the optimization problem inside the method. Recently, this optimization part was solved by brute-force testing of all permitted controls....
The purpose of the present article is to compare different phase-space sampling methods, such as purely stochastic methods (Rejection method, Metropolized independence sampler, Importance Sampling), stochastically perturbed Molecular Dynamics methods (Hybrid Monte Carlo, Langevin Dynamics, Biased Random Walk), and purely deterministic methods (Nosé-Hoover chains, Nosé-Poincaré and Recursive Multiple Thermostats (RMT) methods). After recalling some theoretical convergence properties for the...
Numerical simulation of high frequency waves in highly heterogeneous media is a challenging problem. Resolving the fine structure of the wave field typically requires extremely small time steps and spatial meshes. We show that capturing macroscopic quantities of the wave field, such as the wave energy density, is achievable with much coarser discretizations. We obtain such a result using a time splitting algorithm that solves separately and successively propagation and scattering in the simplified...