| Title | Prediction from a random time point |
| Authors | Georg Lindgren |
| Alternative Location | http://www.jstor.org/stable..., Restricted Access |
| Publication | The Annals of Probability |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 412 - 423 |
| Document type | Article |
| Status | Published |
| Quality controlled | Yes |
| Language | eng |
| Publisher | Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
| Abstract English | In prediction (Wiener-, Kalman-) of a random normal process $\{X(t), t \in R\}$ it is normally required that the time $t_0$ from which prediction is made does not depend on the values of the process. If prediction is made only from time points at which the process takes a certain value $u,$ given a priori, ("prediction under panic"), the Wiener-prediction is not necessarily optimal; optimal should then mean best in the long run, for each single realization. The main theorem in this paper shows that when predicting only from upcrossing zeros $t_\nu$, the Wiener-prediction gives optimal prediction of $X(t_\nu + t)$ as $t_\nu$ runs through the set of zero upcrossings, if and only if the derivative $X'(t_\nu)$ at the crossing points is observed. The paper also gives the conditional distribution from which the optimal predictor can be computed. |
| ISBN/ISSN/Other | ISSN: ISSN 0091-1798 |
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