
arXiv: 1705.09747
We study the convergence of the population dynamics algorithm, which produces sample pools of random variables having a distribution that closely approximates that of the {\em special endogenous solution} to a stochastic fixed-point equation of the form: $$R\stackrel{\mathcal D}{=} Φ( Q, N, \{ C_i \}, \{R_i\}),$$ where $(Q, N, \{C_i\})$ is a real-valued random vector with $N \in \mathbb{N}$, and $\{R_i\}_{i \in \mathbb{N}}$ is a sequence of i.i.d. copies of $R$, independent of $(Q, N, \{C_i\})$; the symbol $\stackrel{\mathcal{D}}{=}$ denotes equality in distribution. Specifically, we show its convergence in the Wasserstein metric of order $p$ ($p \geq 1$) and prove the consistency of estimators based on the sample pool produced by the algorithm.
65C05, 60J80, Wasserstein metric, Probability (math.PR), Random operators and equations (aspects of stochastic analysis), weighted branching processes, distributional fixed point equation, iterative bootstrap, Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.), population dynamics, iteration bootstrap, FOS: Mathematics, distributional fixed-point equations, Mathematics - Probability, weighted branching process
65C05, 60J80, Wasserstein metric, Probability (math.PR), Random operators and equations (aspects of stochastic analysis), weighted branching processes, distributional fixed point equation, iterative bootstrap, Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.), population dynamics, iteration bootstrap, FOS: Mathematics, distributional fixed-point equations, Mathematics - Probability, weighted branching process
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