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Nonparametric estimation of the conditional distribution of the inter-jumping times for piecewise-deterministic Markov processes

Statistics Theory 2012-07-12 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

This paper presents a nonparametric method for estimating the conditional density associated to the jump rate of a piecewise-deterministic Markov process. In our framework, the estimation needs only one observation of the process within a long time interval. Our method relies on a generalization of Aalen's multiplicative intensity model. We prove the uniform consistency of our estimator, under some reasonable assumptions related to the primitive characteristics of the process. A simulation example illustrates the behavior of our estimator.

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@article{arxiv.1202.2212,
  title  = {Nonparametric estimation of the conditional distribution of the inter-jumping times for piecewise-deterministic Markov processes},
  author = {Romain Azaïs and François Dufour and Anne Gégout-Petit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2212},
  year   = {2012}
}