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Theory of Statistics - George Mason University

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Exercises 195<br />

are considered at some length by Le Cam and Yang (2000) and in TSH3,<br />

Chapter 12.<br />

The Exponential Class<br />

Extensive discussions <strong>of</strong> exponential families are provided by Barndorff-Nielson<br />

(1978) and Brown (1986). Morris (1982) defined the natural exponential family<br />

with quadratic variance function (NEF-QVF) class <strong>of</strong> distributions and<br />

showed that much theory could be unified by appeal to the quadratic variance<br />

property. (See also Morris and Lock (2009).)<br />

Heavy-Tailed Families<br />

Various types <strong>of</strong> heavy-tailed distributions have been extensively studied, <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

because <strong>of</strong> their applications in financial analysis.<br />

Some <strong>of</strong> the basic results <strong>of</strong> subexponential families were developed by<br />

Teugels (1975), who also considered their applications in renewal theory. Multivariate<br />

subexponential families with somewhat similar properties can be<br />

identified, but their definition is not as simple as the convergence <strong>of</strong> the ratio<br />

in expression (2.4) (see Cline and Resnick (1992)).<br />

Infinitely Divisible and Stable Families<br />

Steutel and van Harn (2004) provide a general coverage <strong>of</strong> infinitely divisible<br />

distributions in IR. Infinitely divisible distributions arise <strong>of</strong>ten in applications<br />

<strong>of</strong> stochastic processes. Janicki and Weron (1994) discuss such distributions<br />

in this context and in other areas <strong>of</strong> application such as density estimation.<br />

Steutel (1970) considers mixtures <strong>of</strong> infinitely divisible distributions.<br />

The discussion <strong>of</strong> stable distributions in this chapter generally follows<br />

the development by Feller (1971), but is also heavily influenced by Breiman<br />

(1968). Stable distributions also provide useful models for heavy-tailed processes.<br />

Samorodnitsky and Taqqu (1994) provide an extensive discussion <strong>of</strong><br />

stable distributions in this context. Stable distributions are useful in studies<br />

<strong>of</strong> the robustness <strong>of</strong> statistical procedures.<br />

Exercises<br />

2.1. Prove Theorem 2.2.<br />

2.2. State the conditions on the parameters <strong>of</strong> a beta(α, β) distribution for its<br />

PDF to be<br />

a) subharmonic<br />

b) superharmonic<br />

c) harmonic<br />

<strong>Theory</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong> c○2000–2013 James E. Gentle

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