Improving Brownian approximations for boundary crossing problems (Q1940752)

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    Improving Brownian approximations for boundary crossing problems
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6142894

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      Improving Brownian approximations for boundary crossing problems (English)
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      7 March 2013
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      The author derives correction terms of order \(\operatorname{o}\bigl(1/\sqrt n\bigr)\) for the approximate expectations \(\operatorname{E}f(\tau_n,W_n(\tau_n))\) associated with the time and location of a random walk when it first crosses a smooth nonlinear boundary.
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      Donsker's theorem
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      random walk
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      stopping times
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      hitting times
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      Brownian motion
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