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Asymptotic law of limit distribution for fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2014, Article number: 75 (2014)
Abstract
We consider the minimum -norm estimator of the parameter θ of a linear stochastic differential equation , , where is a fractional Brownian motion. The asymptotic law of its limit distribution is studied for , when .
1 Introduction
Stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions are used widely in variety of sciences as stochastic modeling to describe some phenomena. There are many applications such as mathematical finance, economic processes as well as signal processing. The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, which is also called the Vasicek model in finance, is being extensively used in finance over the last few decades as the one-factor short-term interest rate model. Statistical inference for the process of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type driven by Brownian motions has been an active research area, and a comprehensive survey of various methods is given in Prakasa Rao [1].
As fractional Brownian motion plays an important role in the modeling of financial time series, there has been a growing interest in the study of similar problems for stochastic processes driven by fractional Brownian motion (fBm) in view of their applications to long-range dependence of time series. A stationary sequence exhibits long-range dependence if the autocovariance functions satisfy
for some constant c and . In this case, the dependence between and decays slowly as and
(see, e.g., [[2], Definition 1.4.1, p.9]). The long-range dependence was first observed by the hydrologist Hurst [3] on projects involving the design of reservoirs along the Nile river. It was also observed that a similar phenomenon occurs in problems concerning traffic patterns of packet flows in high-speed data networks such as the Internet (see [4, 5]) and in macroeconomics and finance (see [6]).
The problem of parameter estimation and filtering in a simple linear model driven by a fractional Brownian motion was studied by Le Breton [7] in the continuous case. Prakasa Rao [8, 9] studied parametric estimation for more general classes of stochastic processes satisfying the linear stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion, observed over a fixed period of time T. And Prakasa Rao [10] also studied the conditions for such a phenomenon for estimating the drift parameter of a fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type process. For the case of discrete data, the problem of parameter estimation was studied in [11, 12]. The paper [13] obtained the LSE for fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and derived the asymptotic normality of this LSE by using Malliavin calculus. The problem of estimating the parameters in the discrete case has also been given considerable attention (see, e.g., [14, 15]).
In case of diffusion type processes driven by fractional Brownian motions, a popular method is the maximum likelihood estimators (MLE). The MLE of the drift parameter has also been extensively studied (see, e.g., [16, 17]). Moreover, in recent years, the papers [18–20] studied the asymptotic properties of MLE for the drift parameter in some fractional diffusion systems. However, MLE has some shortcomings, its expression of a likelihood function is not explicitly computable. Moreover, MLE is not robust, which means that the properties of MLE will be changed by a slight perturbation. In order to overcome this difficulty, the minimum distance approach is proposed. For a more comprehensive discussion of the properties of minimum distance estimators, we refer to Millar [21].
Following the work of Kutoyants and Pilibossian [22], Prakasa Rao [23] studied the minimum -norm estimator of the drift parameter of a fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type process and proved that converges in probability under to a random variable ζ. However, it is not clear what the distribution of ζ is, so it would be interesting to study the distribution of ζ. In this paper we will study the asymptotic law of its limit distribution for .
2 Preliminaries
Let be a basic complete filtered probability space satisfying the usual conditions, i.e., the filtration is continuous on the right and contains all ℙ-null sets. We consider the parameter estimation problem for a special fractional process, i.e., fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, which satisfies the following stochastic differential equation:
where the drift parameter is unknown, and is a scalar fractional Brownian motion defined on the probability space . For a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter , we mean that it is a continuous and centered Gaussian process with the covariance function
By [2] (see Definitions 1.5.1 and 1.5.2, p.11), we introduce the following.
Definition 1 We say that an -valued random process is self-similar or satisfies the property of self-similarity if for every there exists such that
where denotes the law of random variable ⋅ .
Remark 1 Note that (3) means that the two processes and have the same finite-dimensional distribution functions, i.e., for every choice in ℝ,
for every in ℝ.
Definition 2 If in the above definition, then we say that is a self-similar process with Hurst index H or that it satisfies the property of (statistical) self-similar process with Hurst index H. The quantity is called the statistical fractal dimension of X.
Remark 2 Note that the law of a Gaussian random variance is determined by its expectation value and variation. By (2), it is easy to see that is a self-similar process with Hurst index H. Let
Then we conclude from the fact that is a self-similar process with Hurst index H that
Let be the true parameter of , and , , the solution of (1) with . It is easy to see from (1) that
In this paper, we are concerned with the minimum -norm estimate defined by
Set
which is a Gaussian process and can be interpreted as the ‘derivative’ of the process with respect to ε.
Introduce the random variable
Let be the probability measure induced by the process when is the true parameter and . So, hereafter, we denote , C is a constant.
Theorem 1 As , the random variable converges in probability to a random variable whose probability distribution is the same as that of ζ under .
The above theorem due to Prakasa Rao [23] describes the behavior of . Though the distribution of ζ is not clear, we can consider its limiting behavior as .
3 Asymptotic law
Theorem 2 Suppose that , let , then as , we have .
Proof Using the properties of the stochastic integral, we can write
By applying Remark 2,
where is a fractional Brownian motion.
Let
After changing the variables t and u in the definition of , we have
We can see that the distribution of the random variable depends on three parameters , and γ, but after changing there is only one parameter that the distribution of the random variable depends on.
Then, we just need to show that for every ,
For this purpose, we define the set
Let
Then
We have
As , we get
and
So as corresponds to ,
At the same time, we get, for ,
Then
So as corresponds to ,
From (15) and (16), we obtain that as corresponds to ,
By (13), we get
Therefore, from relation (17), for any , we have the result (12).
In other words,
This completes the proof. □
4 Conclusion
It is interesting to note that, for , although the distribution of ζ is not clear, we can obtain the asymptotic law of its limit distribution. Furthermore, they can also be obtained in the case of -norm and -norm.
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Shen, L., Xu, Q. Asymptotic law of limit distribution for fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Adv Differ Equ 2014, 75 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1847-2014-75
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