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Let xn, n = 0, ±1, ±2, …, be a strictly stationary process. Two closely related problems are posed with respect to the structure of strictly stationary processes. In the first problem we ask whether one can construct a random variable ξn = g(xn, xn-1, …), a function of xn, xn-1, …, that is independent of the past, that is, independent of xn-1, xn-2, …. Such a sequence of random variables {ξn} is a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables. Further, given such a construction, is xn a function of ξn, ξn-1, …. Necessary and sufficient conditions for such a representation are obtained in the case where xn is a finite state Markov chain with the positive transition probabilities in any row of the transition probability matrix P = (pii) of xn distinct (Section 3). Such a representation is comparatively rare for a finite state Markov chain. In the second problem, the assumption that the independent and identically distributed ξn’s be functions of xn, xn-1, … is removed. We ask whether for some such family {ξn} there is a process {yn}, yn = g(ξn, ξn-1,…), with the same probability structure as {xn}. This is shown to be the case for every ergodic finite state Markov chain with nonperiodic states (Section 4). Sufficient conditions for such representations in the case of a general strictly stationary process are obtained in Section 5.
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Davis, R.A., Lii, KS., Politis, D.N. (2011). Stationary Processes as Shifts of Functions of Independent Random Variables. In: Davis, R., Lii, KS., Politis, D. (eds) Selected Works of Murray Rosenblatt. Selected Works in Probability and Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8339-8_17
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