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Stationary increments
Résumé
In probability theory, a stochastic process is said to have stationary increments if its change only depends on the time span of observation, but not on the time when the observation was started. Many large families of stochastic processes have stationary increments either by definition (e.g. Lévy processes) or by construction (e.g. random walks)
A stochastic process has stationary increments if for all and , the distribution of the random variables
depends only on and not on .
Having stationary increments is a defining property for many large families of stochastic processes such as the Lévy processes. Being special Lévy processes, both the Wiener process and the Poisson processes have stationary increments. Other families of stochastic processes such as random walks have stationary increments by construction.
An example of a stochastic process with stationary increments that is not a Lévy process is given by , where the are independent and identically distributed random variables following a normal distribution with mean zero and variance one. Then the increments are independent of as they have a normal distribution with mean zero and variance two. In this special case, the increments are even independent of the duration of observation itself.
The concept of stationary increments can be generalized to stochastic processes with more complex index sets .
Let be a stochastic process whose index set is closed with respect to addition. Then it has stationary increments if for any , the random variables
and
have identical distributions.
If it is sufficient to consider .
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