Conditional Boundary Crossing Probabilities with Applications to Change-Point Problems.

Abstract

For normal random walks S sub 1, S sub 2, ..., formed from independent, identically distributed random variables X sub 1, X sub 2, ..., we determine the asymptotic behavior under regularity conditions of P(S sdub n > mg(n/m) for some n < m sub m = mxi, = m lambda0), xi < g (1), where U sub m = X sub one to the 2nd power + ... + X sub m to the 2nd power. The result is applied to a normal change-point problem to approximate null distributions of test statistics and to obtain approximate confidence sets for the change-point.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA169606

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  • Barry James
  • David Siegmund
  • Kang L. James

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  • Stanford University

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  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Boundaries
  • Crossings
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Integrals
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Normal Distribution
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Random Walk
  • Residuals
  • Sequential Analysis
  • Statistics
  • United States
  • United States Government
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  • Mathematics

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  • Analytical Mechanics
  • Statistical inference.