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May  2013, 7(2): 611-647. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2013.7.611

Constructing continuous stationary covariances as limits of the second-order stochastic difference equations

Lassi Roininen 1, , Petteri Piiroinen 2, and  Markku Lehtinen 3,

1. 

University of Oulu, Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Tähteläntie 62, FI-99600 Sodankylä
2. 

University of Helsinki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
3. 

University of Oulu, Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Sodankylä

Received  November 2011 Revised  August 2012 Published  May 2013

In Bayesian statistical inverse problems the a priori probability distributions are often given as stochastic difference equations. We derive a certain class of stochastic partial difference equations by starting from second-order stochastic partial differential equations in one and two dimensions. We discuss discretisation schemes on uniform lattices of these stationary continuous-time stochastic processes and convergence of the discrete-time processes to the continuous-time processes. A special emphasis is given to an analytical calculation of the covariance kernels of the processes. We find a representation for the covariance kernels in a simple parametric form with controllable parameters: correlation length and variance. In the discrete-time processes the discretisation step is also given as a parameter. Therefore, the discrete-time covariances can be considered as discretisation-invariant. In the two-dimensional cases we find rotation-invariant and anisotropic representations of the difference equations and the corresponding continuous-time covariance kernels.
Keywords: covariance convergence, Stochastic difference equation, statistical inversion..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 65Q10, 60G10; Secondary: 42A3.
Citation: Lassi Roininen, Petteri Piiroinen, Markku Lehtinen. Constructing continuous stationary covariances as limits of the second-order stochastic difference equations. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2013, 7 (2) : 611-647. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2013.7.611
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[1]

V. I. Bogachev, "Measure Theory Vol I, II,", Springer-Verlag, (2007).  doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-34514-5.  Google Scholar

[2]

V. I. Bogachev and A. V. Kolesnikov, Open mappings of probability measures and Skorokhod's representation theorem,, Theory Probab. Appl., 46 (2002), 20.  doi: 10.1137/S0040585X97978701.  Google Scholar

[3]

R. L. Burden, J. D. Faires and A. C. Reynolds, "Numerical Analysis,", Prindle, (1978).   Google Scholar

[4]

M. D. Donsker, An invariance principle for certain probability limit theorems,, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc., 1951 (1951).   Google Scholar

[5]

J. L. Doob, "Stochastic Processes,", John Wiley & Sons, (1953).   Google Scholar

[6]

M. Fukushima, Y. Ōshima and M. Takeda, "Dirichlet Forms and Symmetric Markov Processes,", de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics, (1994).  doi: 10.1515/9783110889741.  Google Scholar

[7]

I. M. Gel'fand and N. Ya. Vilenkin, "Generalized Functions. Vol. 4. Applications Of Harmonic Analysis,", Academic Press, (1964).   Google Scholar

[8]

I. S. Gradshteyn and I. M. Ryzhik, "Table of Integrals, Series and Products,", $7^{th}$ edition, (2007).   Google Scholar

[9]

T. Helin, On infinite-dimensional hierarchical probability models in statistical inverse problems,, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 4 (2009), 567.  doi: 10.3934/ipi.2009.3.567.  Google Scholar

[10]

T. Hida, H-H. Kuo, J. Potthoff and L. Streit, "White Noise. An Infinite-Dimensional Calculus,", Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, (1993).   Google Scholar

[11]

K. Itō, On stochastic differential equations,, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc., 1951 (1951).   Google Scholar

[12]

K. Itō, Stochastic integral,, Proc. Imp. Acad. Tokyo, 20 (1944), 519.  doi: 10.3792/pia/1195572786.  Google Scholar

[13]

K. E. Iverson, "A Programming Language,", New York: Wiley, (1962).   Google Scholar

[14]

J. Kaipio and E. Somersalo, "Statistical and Computational Inverse Problems,", Springer, (2005).   Google Scholar

[15]

D. Knuth, Two notes on notation,, American Mathematical Monthly, 99 (1992), 403.  doi: 10.2307/2325085.  Google Scholar

[16]

H-H. Kuo, "White Noise Distribution Theory,", CRC Press, (1996).   Google Scholar

[17]

S. Lasanen, "Discretizations of Generalized Random Variables with Applications to Inverse Problems,", Ph.D thesis, (2002).   Google Scholar

[18]

S. Lasanen, Non-Gaussian statistical inverse problems. Part I: Posterior distributions,, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 6 (2012), 215.  doi: 10.3934/ipi.2012.6.215.  Google Scholar

[19]

S. Lasanen, Non-Gaussian statistical inverse problems. Part II: Posterior convergence for approximated unknowns,, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 6 (2012), 267.  doi: 10.3934/ipi.2012.6.267.  Google Scholar

[20]

M. Lassas, E. Saksman and S. Siltanen, Discretization invariant Bayesian inversion and Besov space priors,, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 3 (2009), 87.  doi: 10.3934/ipi.2009.3.87.  Google Scholar

[21]

M. Lassas and S. Siltanen, Can one use total variation prior for edge-preserving Bayesian inversion?,, Inverse Problems, 20 (2004), 1537.  doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/20/5/013.  Google Scholar

[22]

M. S. Lehtinen, L. Päivärinta and E. Somersalo, Linear inverse problems for generalised random variables,, Inverse Problems, 5 (1989), 599.  doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/5/4/011.  Google Scholar

[23]

F. Lindgren, H. Rue and J. Lindström, An explicit link between Gaussian Markov random fields: The stochastic partial differential equation approach,, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 73 (2011), 423.  doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2011.00777.x.  Google Scholar

[24]

M. Orispää and M. Lehtinen, Fortran linear inverse problem solver,, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 4 (2010), 482.  doi: 10.3934/ipi.2010.4.485.  Google Scholar

[25]

P. Piiroinen, Statistical measurements, experiments and applications,, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math. Diss., (2005).   Google Scholar

[26]

L. Roininen, M. Lehtinen, S. Lasanen, M. Orispää and M. Markkanen, Correlation priors,, Inverse Problems and Imaging, 5 (2011), 167.  doi: 10.3934/ipi.2011.5.167.  Google Scholar

[27]

H. Rue and L. Held, "Gaussian Markov Random Fields: Theory and Applications,", Chapman & Hall/CRC, (2005).  doi: 10.1201/9780203492024.  Google Scholar

[28]

D. W. Stroock and S. R. S. Varadhan, Diffusion processes with continuous coefficients. I,, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 22 (1969), 345.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160220304.  Google Scholar

[29]

D. W. Stroock and S. R. S. Varadhan, Diffusion processes with continuous coefficients. II,, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 22 (1969), 479.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160220404.  Google Scholar

[30]

D. W. Stroock and S. R. S. Varadhan, Diffusion processes with boundary conditions,, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 24 (1971), 147.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160240206.  Google Scholar

[31]

C. H. Su and D. Lucor, Covariance kernel representations of multidimensional second-order stochastic processes,, J. Comp. Phys., 217 (2006), 82.  doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.02.006.  Google Scholar

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