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February 2011 The distribution of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its concave majorant
Fadoua Balabdaoui, Jim Pitman
Bernoulli 17(1): 466-483 (February 2011). DOI: 10.3150/10-BEJ280

Abstract

We provide a representation of the maximal difference between a standard Brownian bridge and its concave majorant on the unit interval, from which we deduce expressions for the distribution and density functions and moments of this difference. This maximal difference has an application in nonparametric statistics, where it arises in testing monotonicity of a density or regression curve.

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Fadoua Balabdaoui. Jim Pitman. "The distribution of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its concave majorant." Bernoulli 17 (1) 466 - 483, February 2011. https://doi.org/10.3150/10-BEJ280

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Published: February 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 8 February 2011

zbMATH: 1284.60151
MathSciNet: MR2798000
Digital Object Identifier: 10.3150/10-BEJ280

Keywords: Brownian bridge , Brownian excursion , concave majorant , Doob’s transformation , inverse of Laplace transform , stick-breaking process

Rights: Copyright © 2011 Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability

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