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Weak decreasing stochastic order

Probability 2025-09-10 v2

Abstract

We introduce the notion of weak decreasing stochastic (WDS) ordering for real-valued processes with negative means, which, to our knowledge, has not been studied before. Thanks to Madan-Yor's argument, it follows that the WDS ordering is a necessary and sufficient condition for a process with negative mean to be embeddable in a standard Brownian motion by the Cox and Hobson extension of the Az\'ema-Yor algorithm. Since the decreasing stochastic order is stronger than the WDS order, then, for every stochastically non-decreasing family of probability measures with densities, the Cox-Hobson stopping times provide an associated Markov process. The quantile process associated to a stochastically non-decreasing process is not necessarily Markovian.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02190,
  title  = {Weak decreasing stochastic order},
  author = {Antoine-Marie Bogso and Patrice Takam Soh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02190},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages

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