Characterization of Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes Via Moment Conditions.
Abstract
Poisson processes play an important role in many fields. The Poisson process is one of the simplest counting processes and is a building block for many other processes, especially for general independent increment processes. Many definitions have been given for a counting process to be a Poisson process and many papers have appeared dealing with characterizations for the Poisson distribution and the Poisson process. Among the qualitative conditions defining a Poisson process, independent increments is one of the most important conditions. In this paper we attempt to use other conditions in place of independent increments. This provides a somewhat different viewpoint for examining Poisson processes. In addition, new characterizations for the nonhomogeneous Poisson process via moment conditions are obtained which might be easier to utilize in practice.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA187151
Entities
People
- Zhaoben Fang
Organizations
- University of Pittsburgh