Normal approximations for discrete-time occupancy processes

DOI10.1016/J.SPA.2020.05.016zbMATH Open1450.60036arXiv1801.00542OpenAlexW2900165459MaRDI QIDQ2196554FDOQ2196554

Ross S. McVinish, Liam Hodgkinson, P. K. Pollett

Publication date: 3 September 2020

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study normal approximations for a class of discrete-time occupancy processes, namely, Markov chains with transition kernels of product Bernoulli form. This class encompasses numerous models which appear in the complex networks literature, including stochastic patch occupancy models in ecology, network models in epidemiology, and a variety of dynamic random graph models. Bounds on the rate of convergence for a central limit theorem are obtained using Stein's method and moment inequalities on the deviation from an analogous deterministic model. As a consequence, our work also implies a uniform law of large numbers for a subclass of these processes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00542

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zbMATH Keywords

central limit theoremStein's methodnetwork modelsquantitative law of large numbersspreading processesstochastic patch occupancy models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Ecology (92D40) (L^p)-limit theorems (60F25)

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