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Strong Invariance Principles for Ergodic Markov Processes

Statistics Theory 2022-06-17 v2 Probability Computation Statistics Theory

Abstract

Strong invariance principles describe the error term of a Brownian approximation of the partial sums of a stochastic process. While these strong approximation results have many applications, the results for continuous-time settings have been limited. In this paper, we obtain strong invariance principles for a broad class of ergodic Markov processes. Strong invariance principles provide a unified framework for analysing commonly used estimators of the asymptotic variance in settings with a dependence structure. We demonstrate how this can be used to analyse the batch means method for simulation output of Piecewise Deterministic Monte Carlo samplers. We also derive a fluctuation result for additive functionals of ergodic diffusions using our strong approximation results.

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@article{arxiv.2111.12603,
  title  = {Strong Invariance Principles for Ergodic Markov Processes},
  author = {Ardjen Pengel and Joris Bierkens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.12603},
  year   = {2022}
}
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