Sumários

Aula 4

7 março 2017, 13:30 Ana Maria Santos Ferreira Gorjão Henriques

Exercises 1. and 5. Continuation of distributional properties of non-homogeneous Poisson process.

Refs: Sect. 5.4.1 in Ross (Probab. Models 10th ed.), Sect. 2.4 in Ross (Stoch. Proc. 2nd ed).

TPC: Exercises Sect.2.1-Non-homogeneous Poisson process.


Aula 3

6 março 2017, 12:00 Ana Maria Santos Ferreira Gorjão Henriques

Work Presentation on Homogeneous Poisson Process

Non-homogeneous Poisson process: definition and first distributional properties.

Refs: Sect. 5.4.1 in Ross, Probab. Models, 10th ed.; Sect. 2.4 in Ross, Stoch. Proc., 2nd ed.

TPC: Exercises 1. and 5.


Aula 2

21 fevereiro 2017, 13:30 Ana Maria Santos Ferreira Gorjão Henriques

Continuation of characterizations and properties of stochastic processes: first and second order weak stationary; stationary and independent increments; finite-dimensional distributions, stationarity (in distribution) of order n and strict stationarity.
Examples and exercises: 2.,3.,7.

Bernoulli counting process: definition, binomial and hypergeometric properties, geometric and negative binomial distributions to characterize inter-arrival times.
Example and exercise 8.

TPC: Read Sect. 1.9 in Ross (1995, 2nd ed.).
Exercises: all from Sect. 1.1 and 1.2 can be done.


Aula 1

20 fevereiro 2017, 12:00 Ana Maria Santos Ferreira Gorjão Henriques

General information on the course.

Introduction to Stochastic Processes:
Definitions: stochastic process, index and state-space sets, sample path; discrete and continuous time processes, discrete and continuous valued processes.

Characterizations of stochastic process: mean, variance, covariance and correlation functions.

Exercises: 1.a),c),d).

TPC: Read Sect. 2.9 in Ross (2010, 10th ed.), or Sect. 1.1 in Kulkarni. Exercise to do: 1.b).