Parameter Estimation in Fractional Diffusion Models

This book is devoted to parameter estimation in diffusion models involving fractional Brownian motion and related processes. For many years now, standard Brownian motion has been (and still remains) a popular model of randomness used to investigate processes in the natural sciences, financial markets, and the economy. The substantial limitation in the use of stochastic diffusion models with Brownian motion is due to the fact that the motion has independent increments, and, therefore, the random noise it generates is “white,” i.e., uncorrelated. However, many processes in the natural sciences, computer networks and financial markets have long-term or short-term dependences, i.e., the correlations of random noise in these processes are non-zero, and slowly or rapidly decrease with time. In particular, models of financial markets demonstrate various kinds of memory and usually this memory is modeled by fractional Brownian diffusion. Therefore, the book constructs diffusion models with memory and provides simple and suitable parameter estimation methods in these models, making it a valuable resource for all researchers in this field.

The book is addressed to specialists and researchers in the theory and statistics of stochastic processes, practitioners who apply statistical methods of parameter estimation, graduate and post-graduate students who study mathematical modeling and statistics.

Prof. Kestutis Kubilius received his Ph.D. in mathematics at Vilnius University in 1981. Currently he is a professor of mathematics at the same university. His research work mainly focuses on limit theorems for semimartingales, theory of stochastic differential equations, and parameter estimation for fractional diffusion processes. He is the author of more than 50 published papers.

Prof. Yuliya Mishura received her Ph.D. in probability and statistics at Kyiv University in 1978 and received her postdoctoral degree in probability and statistics (habilitation) in 1990. She is currently a professor at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She is the author of more than 250 research papers and 6 books. Her research interests include theory and statistics of stochastic processes, fractional processes, stochastic analysis and financial mathematics.

Dr. Kostiantyn Ralchenko is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Probability Theory, Statistics and Actuarial Mathematics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where he also completed his Ph.D. in mathematics in 2012. His research interests include stochastic differential equations, fractional and multifractional processes, and statistics of stochastic processes. He is the author of 24 papers.