Phantom distribution functions for some stationary sequences

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Abstract: The notion of a phantom distribution function (phdf) was introduced by O'Brien (1987). We show that the existence of a phdf is a quite common phenomenon for stationary weakly dependent sequences. It is proved that any alpha-mixing stationary sequence with continuous marginals admits a continuous phdf. Sufficient conditions are given for stationary sequences exhibiting weak dependence, what allows the use of attractive models beyond mixing. The case of discontinuous marginals is also discussed for alpha-mixing. Special attention is paid to examples of processes which admit a continuous phantom distribution function while their extremal index is zero. We show that Asmussen (1998) and Roberts et al. (2006) provide natural examples of such processes. We also construct a non-ergodic stationary process of this type.









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