{"id":18,"date":"2010-04-30T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2019-11-10T19:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:06:35","slug":"exponential-mixtures-of-exponentials-are-pareto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/exponential-mixtures-of-exponentials-are-pareto\/","title":{"rendered":"Exponential mixtures of exponentials are Pareto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Did you know that if $X\\sim\\mathcal{E}(\\lambda)$ and $\\mathcal{L}(Y\\,\\vert\\,X=x)=\\mathcal{E}(x)$ for all $x\\geq0$ then $Y$ follows a Pareto distribution with\u00a0 probability density function $x\\mapsto 1\/(\\lambda+x)^2$? Funny!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consider now the kinetic diffusion process $(X_t,Y_t)_{t\\geq0}$ on $\\mathbb{R}^2$ where<\/p>\n<p> $$\\begin{cases}dX_t&amp;=dB_t-s(X_t)\\lambda dt\\\\dY_t&amp;=dW_t-s(Y_t)|X_t|dt\\end{cases}$$ where $(B_t)_{t\\geq0}$ and $(W_t)_{t\\geq0}$ are independent standard Brownian motions and $s$ is the sign function... Can you guess the invariant measure and control the speed of convergence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that if $X\\sim\\mathcal{E}(\\lambda)$ and $\\mathcal{L}(Y\\,\\vert\\,X=x)=\\mathcal{E}(x)$ for all $x\\geq0$ then $Y$ follows a Pareto distribution with&nbsp; probability density function $x\\mapsto 1\/(\\lambda+x)^2$? Funny! Consider&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/exponential-mixtures-of-exponentials-are-pareto\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exponential mixtures of exponentials are Pareto<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":45},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11755,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/11755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}