The author's preface gives an outline: "This book is about weakconvergence methods in metric spaces, with applications sufficient to show their power and utility. The Introduction motivates the definitions and indicates how the theory will yield solutions to problems arising outside it. Chapter 1 sets out the basic general theorems, which are then specialized in Chapter 2 to the space C[0, l ] of continuous functions on the unit interval and in Chapter 3 to the space D [0, 1 ] of functions with discontinuities of the first kind. The results of the first three chapters are used in Chapter 4 to derive a variety of limit theorems for dependent sequences of random variables. " The book develops and expands on Donsker's 1951 and 1952 papers on the invariance principle and empirical distributions. The basic random variables remain real-valued although, of course, measures on C[0, l ] and D[0, l ] are vitally used. Within this framework, there are various possibilities for a different and apparently better treatment of the material. More of the general theory of weak convergence of probabilities on separable metric spaces would be useful. Metrizability of the convergence is not brought up until late in the Appendix. The close relation of the Prokhorov metric and a metric for convergence in probability is (hence) not mentioned (see V. Strassen, Ann. Math. Statist. 36 (1965), 423-439; the reviewer, ibid. 39 (1968), 1563-1572). This relation would illuminate and organize such results as Theorems 4.1, 4.2 and 4.4 which give isolated, ad hoc connections between weak convergence of measures and nearness in probability. In the middle of p. 16, it should be noted that C*(S) consists of signed measures which need only be finitely additive if 5 is not compact. On p. 239, where the author twice speaks of separable subsets having nonmeasurable cardinal, he means "discrete" rather than "separable." Theorem 1.4 is Ulam's theorem that a Borel probability on a complete separable metric space is tight. Theorem 1 of Appendix 3 weakens completeness to topological completeness. After mentioning that probabilities on the rationals are tight, the author says it is an

Convergence of probability measures

Stable non-Gaussian random processes , by G. Samorodnitsky and M. S. Taqqu. Pp. 632. £49.50. 1994. ISBN 0-412-05171-0 (Chapman and Hall).

Limit Theorems of Probability Theory.

Theory of random processes needs a kind of normal distribution. This is why Gaussian vectors and Gaussian distributions in infinite-dimensional spaces come into play. By simplicity, importance and wealth of results, theory of Gaussian processes occupies one of the leading places in modern Probability.

Lectures on Gaussian Processes

A decomposition of the bifractional Brownian motion and some applications

We consider the parameter estimation problem for the non-ergodic fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process defined as $dX_t=\theta X_tdt+dB_t,\ t\geq0$, with a parameter $\theta>0$, where $B$ is a fractional Brownian motion of Hurst index $H\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$. We study the consistency and the asymptotic distributions of the least squares estimator $\widehat{\theta}_t$ of $\theta$ based on the observation $\{X_s,\ s\in[0,t]\}$ as $t\rightarrow\infty$.

Parameter estimation for fractional ornstein-uhlenbeck processes: non-ergodic case

The statistical analysis for equations driven by fractional Gaussian process (fGp) is relatively recent. The development of stochastic calculus with respect to the fGp allowed to study such models. In the present paper we consider the drift parameter estimation problem for the non-ergodic Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process defined as d X t = θ X t d t + d G t , t ≥ 0 with an unknown parameter θ > 0 , where G is a Gaussian process. We provide sufficient conditions, based on the properties of G , ensuring the strong consistency and the asymptotic distribution of our estimator θ ˜ t of θ based on the observation { X s , s ∈ [ 0 , t ] } as t → ∞ . Our approach offers an elementary, unifying proof of Belfadli (2011), and it allows to extend the result of Belfadli (2011) to the case when G is a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H ∈ ( 0 , 1 ) . We also discuss the cases of subfractional Brownian motion and bifractional Brownian motion.

Least squares estimator for non-ergodic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes driven by Gaussian processes

The statistical analysis for equations driven by fractional Gaussian process (fGp) is relatively recent. The development of stochastic calculus with respect to the fGp allowed to study such models. In the present paper we consider the drift parameter estimation problem for the non-ergodic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process defined as $dX_t=\theta X_tdt+dG_t,\ t\geq0$ with an unknown parameter $\theta>0$, where $G$ is a Gaussian process. We provide sufficient conditions, based on the properties of $G$, ensuring the strong consistency and the asymptotic distribution of our estimator $\widetilde{\theta}_t$ of $\theta$ based on the observation $\{X_s,\ s\in[0,t]\}$ as $t\rightarrow\infty$. Our approach offers an elementary, unifying proof of \cite{BEO}, and it allows to extend the result of \cite{BEO} to the case when $G$ is a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H\in(0,1)$. We also discuss the cases of subfractional Brownian motion and bifractional Brownian motion.

Optimal rates for parameter estimation of stationary Gaussian processes

Using the Malliavin calculus with respect to Gaussian processes and the multiple stochastic integrals we derive Ito's and Tanaka's formulas for the $d$-dimensional bifractional Brownian motion.

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Khalifa Es-Sebaiy

Papers

Parameter estimation for fractional ornstein-uhlenbeck processes: non-ergodic case

Least squares estimator for non-ergodic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes driven by Gaussian processes

Least squares estimator for non-ergodic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes driven by Gaussian processes

Optimal rates for parameter estimation of stationary Gaussian processes

Multidimensional bifractional Brownian motion: Ito and Tanaka formulas