Uniformly and strongly consistent estimation for the Hurst function of a linear multifractional stable motion

DOI10.3150/15-BEJ781zbMATH Open1378.62052arXiv1407.3395MaRDI QIDQ520702FDOQ520702

Antoine Ayache, Julien Hamonier

Publication date: 5 April 2017

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Since the middle of the 90's, multifractional processes have been introduced for overcoming some limitations of the classical Fractional Brownian Motion model. In their context, the Hurst parameter becomes a Holder continuous function H(?) of the time variable t. Linear Multifractional Stable Motion (LMSM) is the most known one of them with heavy-tailed distributions. Generally speaking, global and local sample path roughness of a multifractional process are determined by values of its parameter $H(cdot)$; therefore, since about two decades, several authors have been interested in their statistical estimation, starting from discrete variations of the process. Because of complex dependence structures of variations, in order to show consistency of estimators one has to face challenging problems. The main goal of our article is to introduce, in the setting of the symmetric alpha-stable non-anticipative moving average LMSM, where $alphain(1;2)$, a new strategy for dealing with such kind of problems. It can also be useful in other contexts. In contrast with previously developed strategies, this new one does not require to look for sharp estimates of covariances related to functionals of variations. Roughly speaking, it consists of expressing variations in such a way that they become independent random variables up to negligible remainders. Thanks to it, we obtain, an almost surely and $L^p(Omega),pin(0;4]$, consistent estimator of the whole function $H(cdot)$, which converges, uniformly in t, and even for some Holder norms. Also, we obtain estimates for the rates of convergence. Such kind of strong consistency results in uniform and Holder norms are rather unusual in the literature on statistical estimation of functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3395

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zbMATH Keywords

heavy-tailed distributionslaws of large numbersdiscrete variationsstatistical estimation of functionstime changing Hurst parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Non-Markovian processes: estimation (62M09) Fractional processes, including fractional Brownian motion (60G22)

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