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Diffusions with measurement errors.I. Local Asymptotic Normality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2002

Arnaud Gloter  and
Jean Jacod
Arnaud Gloter
Affiliation:
G.R.A.P.E., UMR 5113 du CNRS, Université Montesquieu (Bordeaux), Avenue Léon Duguit, 33608 Pessac, France; [email protected].
Jean Jacod
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, UMR 7599 du CNRS, Université Paris 6, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France; [email protected].
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Abstract

We consider a diffusion process X which is observed at times i/nfor i = 0,1,...,n, each observation being subject to a measurementerror. All errors are independent and centered Gaussian with knownvariance pn . There is an unknown parameter within the diffusioncoefficient, to be estimated. In this first paper thecase when X is indeed a Gaussian martingale is examined: we can provethat the LAN property holds under quite weak smoothness assumptions,with an explicit limiting Fisher information. What is perhaps the mostinteresting is the rate at which this convergence takes place:it is $1/\sqrt{n}$ (as when there is no measurement error) when pn goes fastenough to 0, namely npn is bounded. Otherwise, and provided thesequence pn itself is bounded, the rate is (pn / n) 1/4. Inparticular if pn = p does not depend on n, we get a rate n -1/4.

Keywords

Statistics of diffusionsmeasurementerrorsLAN property.
Type
Research Article
Information
ESAIM: Probability and Statistics , Volume 5 , 2001 , pp. 225 - 242
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2001

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