umontreal.iro.lecuyer.stochprocess
Class GammaProcessBridge

java.lang.Object
  umontreal.iro.lecuyer.stochprocess.StochasticProcess
      umontreal.iro.lecuyer.stochprocess.GammaProcess
          umontreal.iro.lecuyer.stochprocess.GammaProcessBridge

Direct Known Subclasses:

GammaProcessSymmetricalBridge

public class GammaProcessBridge
extends GammaProcess

This class represents a gamma process {S(t) = G(t;μ, ν) : t >= 0} with mean parameter μ and variance parameter ν, sampled using the gamma bridge method (see for example). This is analogous to the bridge sampling used in BrownianMotionBridge.

Note that gamma bridge sampling requires not only gamma variates, but also beta variates. The latter generally take a longer time to generate than the former. The class GammaSymmetricalBridgeProcess provides a faster implementation when the number of observation times is a power of two.

The warning from class BrownianMotionBridge applies verbatim to this class.

Constructor Summary

GammaProcessBridge(double s0, double mu, double nu, GammaGen Ggen, BetaGen Bgen)
Constructs a new GammaProcessBridge.

GammaProcessBridge(double s0, double mu, double nu, RandomStream stream)
Constructs a new GammaProcessBridge with parameters μ = mu, ν = nu and initial value S(t₀) = s0.

Method Summary

double[]	generatePath() Generates, returns and saves the path {X(t0), X(t1),…, X(td)}.
double[]	generatePath(double[] uniform01) Generates, returns and saves the path {X(t0), X(t1),…, X(td)}.
double	nextObservation() Generates and returns the next observation X(tj) of the stochastic process.
double	nextObservation(double nextT) Generates and returns the next observation at time tj+1 = nextTime, using the previous observation time tj defined earlier (either by this method or by setObservationTimes), as well as the value of the previous observation X(tj).
void	resetStartProcess() Resets the observation counter to its initial value j = 0, so that the current observation X(tj) becomes X(t0).
void	setStream(RandomStream stream) Resets the RandomStream of the GammaGen and the BetaGen to stream.

Methods inherited from class umontreal.iro.lecuyer.stochprocess.GammaProcess

getMu, getNu, getStream, setParams

Methods inherited from class umontreal.iro.lecuyer.stochprocess.StochasticProcess

generatePath, getArrayMappingCounterToIndex, getCurrentObservation, getCurrentObservationIndex, getNbObservationTimes, getObservation, getObservationTimes, getPath, getSubpath, getX0, hasNextObservation, setObservationTimes, setObservationTimes, setX0

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

GammaProcessBridge

public GammaProcessBridge(double s0,
                          double mu,
                          double nu,
                          RandomStream stream)

Constructs a new GammaProcessBridge with parameters μ = mu, ν = nu and initial value S(t₀) = s0. Uses stream to generate the gamma and beta variates by inversion.

GammaProcessBridge

public GammaProcessBridge(double s0,
                          double mu,
                          double nu,
                          GammaGen Ggen,
                          BetaGen Bgen)

Constructs a new GammaProcessBridge. Uses the random variate generators Ggen and Bgen to generate the gamma and beta variates, respectively. Note that both generator uses the same RandomStream. Furthermore, the parameters of the GammaGen and BetaGen objects are not important since the implementation forces the generators to use the correct parameters. (as defined in).

Method Detail

nextObservation

public double nextObservation()

Description copied from class: StochasticProcess

Generates and returns the next observation X(t_j) of the stochastic process. The processes are usually sampled sequentially, i.e. if the last observation generated was for time t_j-1, the next observation returned will be for time t_j. In some cases, subclasses extending this abstract class may use non-sequential sampling algorithms (such as bridge sampling). The order of generation of the t_j's is then specified by the subclass. All the processes generated using principal components analysis (PCA) do not have this method.

Overrides:

nextObservation in class GammaProcess

nextObservation

public double nextObservation(double nextT)

Description copied from class: GammaProcess

Generates and returns the next observation at time t_j+1 = nextTime, using the previous observation time t_j defined earlier (either by this method or by setObservationTimes), as well as the value of the previous observation X(t_j). Warning: This method will reset the observations time t_j+1 for this process to nextT. The user must make sure that the t_j+1 supplied is >= t_j.

Overrides:

nextObservation in class GammaProcess

generatePath

public double[] generatePath(double[] uniform01)

Description copied from class: GammaProcess

Generates, returns and saves the path {X(t₀), X(t₁),…, X(t_d)}. This method does not use the RandomStream stream nor the GammaGen Ggen. It uses the vector of uniform random numbers U(0, 1) provided by the user and generates the path by inversion. The vector uniform01 must be of dimension d.

Overrides:

generatePath in class GammaProcess

generatePath

public double[] generatePath()

Description copied from class: GammaProcess

Generates, returns and saves the path {X(t₀), X(t₁),…, X(t_d)}. The gamma variates X in are generated using the RandomStream stream or the RandomStream included in the GammaGen Ggen.

Overrides:

generatePath in class GammaProcess

resetStartProcess

public void resetStartProcess()

Description copied from class: StochasticProcess

Resets the observation counter to its initial value j = 0, so that the current observation X(t_j) becomes X(t₀). This method should be invoked before generating observations sequentially one by one via nextObservation, for a new sample path.

Overrides:

resetStartProcess in class StochasticProcess

setStream

public void setStream(RandomStream stream)

Resets the RandomStream of the GammaGen and the BetaGen to stream.

Overrides:

setStream in class GammaProcess