Stein’s method, Palm theory and Poisson process approximation

• Louis H. Y. Chen ^[1] ; Aihua Xia ^[2]
  1. [1] National University of Singapore

     National University of Singapore

     Singapur

     
  2. [2] University of Melbourne

     University of Melbourne

     Australia

     
• Localización: Annals of probability: An official journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, ISSN 0091-1798, Vol. 32, Nº. 3, 2, 2004, págs. 2545-2569
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The framework of Stein’s method for Poisson process approximation is presented from the point of view of Palm theory, which is used to construct Stein identities and define local dependence. A general result (Theorem 2.3) in Poisson process approximation is proved by taking the local approach. It is obtained without reference to any particular metric, thereby allowing wider applicability. A Wasserstein pseudometric is introduced for measuring the accuracy of point process approximation. The pseudometric provides a generalization of many metrics used so far, including the total variation distance for random variables and the Wasserstein metric for processes as in Barbour and Brown [Stochastic Process. Appl. 43 (1992) 9–31]. Also, through the pseudometric, approximation for certain point processes on a given carrier space is carried out by lifting it to one on a larger space, extending an idea of Arratia, Goldstein and Gordon [Statist. Sci. 5 (1990) 403–434]. The error bound in the general result is similar in form to that for Poisson approximation. As it yields the Stein factor 1/λ as in Poisson approximation, it provides good approximation, particularly in cases where λ is large. The general result is applied to a number of problems including Poisson process modeling of rare words in a DNA sequence.