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Published / Preprint: Record statistics for random walk bridges. (arXiv:1505.06053v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech])

Posted: 24 May 2015 05:37 PM PDT

We investigate the statistics of records in a random sequence $\{x_B(0)=0,x_B(1),\cdots, x_B(n)=x_B(0)=0\}$ of $n$ time steps. The sequence $x_B(k)$'s represents the position at step $k$ of a random walk `bridge' of $n$ steps that starts and ends at the origin. At each step, the increment of the position is a random jump drawn from a specified symmetric distribution. We study the...

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Published / Preprint: Bregman superquantiles. Estimation methods and applications. (arXiv:1405.6677v2 [math.ST] UPDATED)

Posted: 24 May 2015 05:37 PM PDT

In this work, we extend some quantities introduced in "Optimization of conditional value-at-risk" of R.T Rockafellar and S. Uryasev to the case where the proximity between real numbers is measured by using a Bregman divergence. This leads to the definition of the Bregman superquantile. Axioms of a coherent measure of risk discussed in "Coherent approches to risk in optimization under uncertainty"...

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