Translated Poisson approximation for Markov chains

DOI10.1007/S10959-006-0047-9zbMATH Open1128.60015arXiv0810.0599OpenAlexW1974885059MaRDI QIDQ867091FDOQ867091

Authors: Torgny Lindvall, A. D. Barbour 

Publication date: 14 February 2007

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper is concerned with approximating the distribution of a sum W of n integer valued random variables Y_i, whose distributions depend on the state of an underlying Markov chain X. The approximation is in terms of a translated Poisson distribution, with mean and variance chosen to be close to those of W, and the error is measured with respect to the total variation norm. Error bounds comparable to those found for normal approximation with respect to the weaker Kolmogorov distance are established, provided that the distribution of the sum of the Y_i's between the successive visits of X to a reference state is aperiodic. Without this assumption, approximation in total variation cannot be expected to be good.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.0599

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainsPoisson approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25)

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