This paper provide a large-deviations approximation of the tail distribution of total financial losses on a portfolio consisting of many positions. Applications include the total default losses on a bank portfolio, or the total claims against an insurer. The results may be useful in allocating...

This paper provide a large-deviations approximation of the tail distribution of total financial losses on a portfolio consisting of many positions. Applications include the total default losses on a bank portfolio, or the total claims against an insurer. The results may be useful in allocating...

This paper provide a large-deviations approximation of the tail distribution of total financial losses on a portfolio consisting of many positions. Applications include the total default losses on a bank portfolio, or the total claims against an insurer. The results may be useful in allocating...

For {Xi}i = 1 a sequence of i.i.d. random variables taking values in a Polish space [Sigma] with distribution [mu], we obtain large and moderate deviation principles for the processes {n-1 [Sigma][nt]i = 1 [delta]Xi; t = 0}n = 1 and {n-1/2 [Sigma][nt]i = 1 ([delta]Xi - [mu]); t = 0}n = 1,...

The large deviation principle is known to hold for the empirical measures (occupation times) of Polish space valued random variables and for the empirical means of Banach space valued random variables under Markov dependence or mixing conditions, and subject to the appropriate exponential tail...

An extension of the "prior density for path" (Onsager-Machlup functional) is defined and shown to exist for Gaussian fields generated by solutions of elliptic PDEs driven by white noise. This functional is then used to define and solve the MAP estimation of such fields observed via nonlinear...

If for a 'permissible' family of functions and an i.i.d. process {Xi}[infinity]i=0, with probability one, then the same holds for away absolutely regular (weakly Bernoulli) process having the same marginal distribution. In particular, for any class of sets having finite V-C dimension and any...

Consider a sequence of m deterministic points in ##R##d, and consider the empirical measure of a random sample (without replacements) of size n = n(m). We prove the large deviation principle and compute the resulting rate function for the latter empirical measure under the assumptions that the...