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Limit theorems for random walks conditioned to stay positive (English)
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16 January 1993
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This paper is concerned with a random walk \(\{S_ n\}\) on the integers whose drift is negative but which is conditioned to stay positive. Let \(A_ n=\{S_ k\geq 0\), \(1\leq k\leq n\}\) and \(A=\lim_{n\to\infty}A_ n\). Here \(P(A)=0\) but it is shown that for a large class of events \(B\), \(\lim_{n\to\infty}P(B\mid A_ n)\) provides a workable definition of \(P(B\mid A)\). Specific limits are calculated in terms of associated Markov chains in the cases where (i) the random walk is simple or (ii) belongs to the discrete exponential family.
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conditioned limit
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random walk
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Markov chains
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