Stochastic Processes and Orthogonal Polynomials:
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Main Author: Schoutens, Wim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2000
Series:Lecture Notes in Statistics 146
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:It has been known for a long time that there is a close connection between stochastic processes and orthogonal polynomials. For example, N. Wiener [112] and K. Ito [56] knew that Hermite polynomials play an important role in the integration theory with respect to Brownian motion. In the 1950s D. G. Kendall [66], W. Ledermann and G. E. H. Reuter [67] [74], and S. Karlin and J. L. McGregor [59] established another important connection. They expressed the transition probabilities of a birth and death process by means of a spectral representation, the so-called Karlin-McGregor representation, in terms of orthogonal polynomials. In the following years these relationships were developed further. Many birth and death models were related to specific orthogonal polynomials. H. Ogura [87], in 1972, and D. D. Engel [45], in 1982, found an integral relation between the Poisson process and the Charlier polynomials. Some people clearly felt the potential importance of orthogonal polynomials in probability theory. For example, P. Diaconis and S. Zabell [29] related Stein equations for some well-known distributions, including Pearson's class, with the corresponding orthogonal polynomials. The most important orthogonal polynomials are brought together in the so-called Askey scheme of orthogonal polynomials. This scheme classifies the hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials that satisfy some type of differential or difference equation and stresses the limit relations between them
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 184p)
ISBN:9781461211709
9780387950150
ISSN:0930-0325
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4612-1170-9

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