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Mixing properties of harris chains and autoregressive processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2016

Krishna B. Athreya*
Affiliation:
Iowa State University
Sastry G. Pantula*
Affiliation:
North Carolina State University
*
Postal address: Statistical Laboratory, Snedecor Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
∗∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, School of Mathematical Sciences, Box 8203, Raleigh, NC 27695–8203, USA.

Abstract

Let {Yn: n ≧ 1} be a Harris-recurrent Markov chain on a general state space. It is shown that {Yn} is strong mixing, provided there exists a stationary probability distribution π (·) for {Yn}. Necessary and sufficient conditions for an autoregressive process to be uniform mixing are given.

Type
Research Paper
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1986 

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Footnotes

Research supported in part by NSF grant DMS-8502311.

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