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Corrected diffusion approximations in certain random walk problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

D. Siegmund
D. Siegmund*
Affiliation:
Stanford University
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∗ Postal address: Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Correction terms are obtained for the diffusion approximation to one- and two-barrier ruin problems in finite and infinite time. The corrections involve moments of ladder-height distributions, and a method is given for calculating them numerically. Examples show that the corrected approximations can be much more accurate than the originals.

Keywords

DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONHEAVY TRAFFICRANDOM WALKGAMBLER'S RUIN

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Research Article
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1979 , pp. 701 - 719
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1979 

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Footnotes

Research partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant MCS 77-16974 and by ONR Contract N00014-77-C-0306.

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