Informatics and Applications
2026, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp 30-38
ON NORMAL VARIANCE-MEAN MIXTURES AS STATIONARY DISTRIBUTIONS OF A STOCHASTIC DIFFERENCE EQUATION WITH RANDOM COEFFICIENTS
- V. Yu. Korolev
- N. R. Romanyuk
Abstract
It is shown that an arbitrary normal variance-mean mixture can be a stationary distribution of a stochastic difference equation (that is, in the first-order autoregressive scheme) with random coefficients. An example is presented of what the random drift and diffusion coefficients should look like in order that a specified mixture is a stationary distribution. It is demonstrated that one and the same stationary distribution can occur with different forms of the coefficients. In terms of the closeness of coefficients, some estimates are presented for the closeness of the distributions of random autoregressive sequences of the first order. It is also shown that the stationary mode of
the first-order autoregressive process with random coefficients possesses the property of stability in the sense that small deviations of the distribution of the initial term of the autoregressive sequence from the stationary distribution corresponding to the given coefficients guarantee small deviations of the distributions of the rest terms of the sequence from this distribution.
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Title
ON NORMAL VARIANCE-MEAN MIXTURES AS STATIONARY DISTRIBUTIONS OF A STOCHASTIC DIFFERENCE EQUATION WITH RANDOM COEFFICIENTS
Journal
Informatics and Applications
2026, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp 30-38
Cover Date
2026-01-04
DOI
10.14357/19922264260104
Print ISSN
1992-2264
Publisher
Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Key words
stochastic difference equation with random coefficients; first-order autoregression with random coefficients; stationary distribution; normal variance-mean mixture
Authors
V. Yu. Korolev  ,  ,  and N. R. Romanyuk
Author Affiliations
 Department of Mathematical Statistics, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, M. V Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-52 Leninskie Gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
 Federal Research Center "Computer Science and Control" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 44-2 Vavilov Str., Moscow 119333, Russian Federation
 Moscow Center for Fundamental and Applied Mathematics, M. V Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-52 Leninskie Gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
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