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Limit Laws for Functions of Fringe trees for Binary Search Trees and Recursive Trees
We prove limit theorems for sums of functions of subtrees of binary search
trees and random recursive trees. In particular, we give simple new proofs of
the fact that the number of fringe trees of size in the binary search
tree and the random recursive tree (of total size ) asymptotically has a
Poisson distribution if , and that the distribution is
asymptotically normal for . Furthermore, we prove similar
results for the number of subtrees of size with some required property , for example the number of copies of a certain fixed subtree . Using
the Cram\'er-Wold device, we show also that these random numbers for different
fixed subtrees converge jointly to a multivariate normal distribution. As an
application of the general results, we obtain a normal limit law for the number
of -protected nodes in a binary search tree or random recursive tree.
The proofs use a new version of a representation by Devroye, and Stein's
method (for both normal and Poisson approximation) together with certain
couplings
Real Zeros and Partitions without singleton blocks
We prove that the generating polynomials of partitions of an -element set
into non-singleton blocks, counted by the number of blocks, have real roots
only and we study the asymptotic behavior of the leftmost roots. We apply this
information to find the most likely number of blocks.Comment: 16 page
Modelling International Tourist Arrivals and Volatility: An Application to Taiwan
International tourism is a major source of export receipts for many countries worldwide. Although it is not yet one of the most important industries in Taiwan (or the Republic of China), an island in East Asia off the coast of mainland China (or the Peopleâs Republic of China), the leading tourism source countries for Taiwan are Japan, followed by USA, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, UK, Germany and Australia. These countries reflect short, medium and long haul tourist destinations. Although the Peopleâs Republic of China and Hong Kong are large sources of tourism to Taiwan, the political situation is such that tourists from these two sources to Taiwan are reported as domestic tourists. Daily data from 1 January 1990 to 30 June 2007 are obtained from the National Immigration Agency of Taiwan. The Heterogeneous Autoregressive (HAR) model is used to capture long memory properties in the data. In comparison with the HAR(1) model, the estimated asymmetry coefficients for GJR(1,1) are not statistically significant for the HAR(1,7) and HAR(1,7,28) models, so that their respective GARCH(1,1) counterparts are to be preferred. These empirical results show that the conditional volatility estimates are sensitive to the long memory nature of the conditional mean specifications. Although asymmetry is observed for the HAR(1) model, there is no evidence of leverage. The QMLE for the GARCH(1,1), GJR(1,1) and EGARCH(1,1) models for international tourist arrivals to Taiwan are statistically adequate and have sensible interpretations. However, asymmetry (though not leverage) was found only for the HAR(1)model, and not for the HAR(1,7) and HAR(1,7,28) models.
Daily Tourist Arrivals, Exchange Rates and Volatility for Korea and Taiwan
Both domestic and international tourism are a major source of service export receipts for many countries worldwide, and is also increasingly important in Taiwan. One of the three leading tourism source countries for Taiwan is the Republic of Korea, which is a source of short haul tourism. Daily data from 1 January 1990 to 31 December 2008 are used to model the Korean Won / New Taiwan exchange rate are statistically adequate and have sensible interpretations. Asymmetry (though not leverage) is found for several alternative HAR models.exchange rates;GARCH;leverage;asymmetry;long memory;EGARCH;HAR;Korean tourist arrivals;GJR;global financial crisis;approximate price effect
"Cruising is Risky Business"
As the fastest growing sector within the international tourism industry, having grown at roughly double the rate of international tourism as a whole, the cruise liner business has shown impressive growth in the North American and European markets. For port management purposes, as well as for transport policy, it is essential to be able to forecast accurately cruise passenger arrivals and their variability. In the presence of time-varying variances (or volatility), it is crucial to model such volatility in order to provide sensible forecast intervals in addition to the forecast themselves. Time-varying volatility in port management is important because governments and businesses need to be aware of the uncertainty associated with the number of cruise passenger arrivals and their associated growth. In calculating income elasticities, port taxes and tourist taxes, it is essential to obtain accurate estimates of cruise passenger arrivals and their volatility. Moreover, in an international context in which natural disasters, terrorism, crime and ethnic conflicts, among others, have significant impacts on tourism, it is crucial to assess the persistence of shocks on cruise passenger arrivals for effective crisis management plans, including different forms of co-operation among ports facing similar shocks. Appropriate models are required to enable optimal private and public decision making in designing ports for cruise ships. Daily cruise passenger arrivals data for the three major ports in the Balearic Islands, Spain, namely Palma, Ibiza and Mahon, for the period 1997-2006, as well as for the high cruise season for each island,are analyzed using alternative conditional mean and conditional volatility models in order to provide empirical support for purposes of optimal decision making. Four different types of asymmetries are analyzed according to the positive and negative shocks to daily cruise passenger arrivals, as well as from distinctions between the high and low cruise seasons. The estimates of cruise passenger arrivals and their volatility are generally found to be sensible and to have valid statistical properties. Likelihood ratio tests of the constancy of coefficients in the high and low cruise seasons indicate that the weekly delayed response of cruise passenger arrivals differ significantly spatially across islands and temporally across seasons.
Model Assessment Tools for a Model False World
A standard goal of model evaluation and selection is to find a model that
approximates the truth well while at the same time is as parsimonious as
possible. In this paper we emphasize the point of view that the models under
consideration are almost always false, if viewed realistically, and so we
should analyze model adequacy from that point of view. We investigate this
issue in large samples by looking at a model credibility index, which is
designed to serve as a one-number summary measure of model adequacy. We define
the index to be the maximum sample size at which samples from the model and
those from the true data generating mechanism are nearly indistinguishable. We
use standard notions from hypothesis testing to make this definition precise.
We use data subsampling to estimate the index. We show that the definition
leads us to some new ways of viewing models as flawed but useful. The concept
is an extension of the work of Davies [Statist. Neerlandica 49 (1995)
185--245].Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-STS302 the Statistical
Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Daily Tourist Arrivals, Exchange Rates and Volatility for Korea and Taiwan
Both domestic and international tourism are a major source of service export receipts for many countries worldwide, and is also increasingly important in Taiwan. One of the three leading tourism source countries for Taiwan is the Republic of Korea, which is a source of short haul tourism. Daily data from 1 January 1990 to 31 December 2008 are used to model the Korean Won / New Taiwan exchange rate are statistically adequate and have sensible interpretations. Asymmetry (though not leverage) is found for several alternative HAR models.
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