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The stochastic geyser problem for first-passage times
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- Journal:
- Journal of Applied Probability / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / March 1981
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 14 July 2016, pp. 91-103
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- March 1981
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Let X1, X2, · ·· be a sequence of independent, identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables with positive mean. An analogue of Rényi's (1962) stochastic geyser problem is solved for the associated process
of first-passage times. More precisely, it is shown that a single realization of the sequence 
determines the distribution function (d.f.) of the Xn's almost surely (a.s.), even if the observations are erroneous up to an order o(log n).
of first-passage times. More precisely, it is shown that a single realization of the sequence 
determines the distribution function (d.f.) of the 