Introduction to stochastic analysis : integrals and differential equations /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Mackevičius, Vigirdas
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Wiley, 2013.
• Σειρά: ISTE.
• Θέματα: Stochastic analysis.; Electronic books.

This is an introduction to stochastic integration and stochastic differential equations written in an understandable way for a wide audience, from students of mathematics to practitioners in biology, chemistry, physics, and finances. The presentation is based on the naïve stochastic integration, ra...

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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Notation; Chapter 1. Introduction: Basic Notions of Probability Theory; 1.1. Probability space; 1.2. Random variables; 1.3. Characteristics of a random variable; 1.4. Types of random variables; 1.5. Conditional probabilities and distributions; 1.6. Conditional expectations as random variables; 1.7. Independent events and random variables; 1.8. Convergence of random variables; 1.9. Cauchy criterion; 1.10. Series of random variables; 1.11. Lebesgue theorem; 1.12. Fubini theorem; 1.13. Random processes; 1.14. Kolmogorov theorem.
• Chapter 2. Brownian Motion2.1. Definition and properties; 2.2. White noise and Brownian motion; 2.3. Exercises; Chapter 3. Stochastic Models with Brownian Motion and White Noise; 3.1. Discrete time; 3.2. Continuous time; Chapter 4. Stochastic Integral with Respect to Brownian Motion; 4.1. Preliminaries. Stochastic integral with respect to a step process; 4.2. Definition and properties; 4.3. Extensions; 4.4. Exercises; Chapter 5. Itô's Formula; 5.1. Exercises; Chapter 6. Stochastic Differential Equations; 6.1. Exercises; Chapter 7. Itô Processes; 7.1. Exercises.
• Chapter 8. Stratonovich Integral and Equations8.1. Exercises; Chapter 9. Linear Stochastic Differential Equations; 9.1. Explicit solution of a linear SDE; 9.2. Expectation and variance of a solution of an LSDE; 9.3. Other explicitly solvable equations; 9.4. Stochastic exponential equation; 9.5. Exercises; Chapter 10. Solutions of SDEs as Markov Diffusion Processes; 10.1. Introduction; 10.2. Backward and forward Kolmogorov equations; 10.3. Stationary density of a diffusion process; 10.4. Exercises; Chapter 11. Examples; 11.1. Additive noise: Langevin equation.
• 11.2. Additive noise: general case11.3. Multiplicative noise: general remarks; 11.4. Multiplicative noise: Verhulst equation; 11.5. Multiplicative noise: genetic model; Chapter 12. Example in Finance: Black-Scholes Model; 12.1. Introduction: what is an option?; 12.2. Self-financing strategies; 12.2.1. Portfolio and its trading strategy; 12.2.2. Self-financing strategies; 12.2.3. Stock discount; 12.3. Option pricing problem: the Black-Scholes model; 12.4. Black-Scholes formula; 12.5. Risk-neutral probabilities: alternative derivation of Black-Scholes formula; 12.6. Exercises.
• Chapter 13. Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations13.1. Memories of approximations of ordinary differential equations; 13.2. Euler approximation; 13.3. Higher-order strong approximations; 13.4. First-order weak approximations; 13.5. Higher-order weak approximations; 13.6. Example: Milstein-type approximations; 13.7. Example: Runge-Kutta approximations; 13.8. Exercises; Chapter 14. Elements of Multidimensional Stochastic Analysis; 14.1. Multidimensional Brownian motion; 14.2. Itô's formula for a multidimensional Brownian motion; 14.3. Stochastic differential equations.