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Boundary crossing probabilities for diffusions with piecewise linear drifts

Probability 2015-10-28 v2

Abstract

We propose an approach to approximate the boundary crossing probabilities for general one-dimensional diffusion processes, and derive the convergence rate for this approximation scheme. There results are based on the explicit expression of the Laplace transforms of the first passage densities for diffusions with piecewise linear drifts. The proposed method is applied to a reliability problem where the standard degradation model based on Wiener process is extended to diffusion processes with piecewise linear drifts.

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@article{arxiv.1205.2941,
  title  = {Boundary crossing probabilities for diffusions with piecewise linear drifts},
  author = {Jinghai Shao and Liqun Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.2941},
  year   = {2015}
}
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