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The expected number of visits of a sequence of normal partial sums to each side of a boundary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Moshe Pollar
Moshe Pollar*
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Abstract

Let be the sequence of partial sums of independent N(μ, 1) random variables. The boundary in the {(n, Sn)} plane which minimizes the expected number of times n that Sn will be below a boundary when μ = θ > 0 subject to a given expected number of visits that Sn will be above the same boundary when μ = 0 is shown to be linear and is also characterized. Similar results are shown for Brownian motion.

Keywords

SUMS OF INDEPENDENT IDENTICALLY DISTRIBUTED RANDOM VARIABLESSTOCHASTIC PROCESSMOVING BOUNDARYBROWNIAN MOTION
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 192 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1978 

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