Haslett, John and Parnell, Andrew (2008) A Simple Monotone Process with Application to Radiocarbon-Dated Depth Chronologies. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, 57 (4). pp. 399-418. ISSN 0035-9254
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Abstract
Summary. We propose a new and simple continuous Markov monotone stochastic process and use it to make inference on a partially observed monotone stochastic process. The process is piecewise linear, based on additive independent gamma increments arriving in a Poisson fashion. An independent increments variation allows very simple conditional simulation of sample paths given known values of the process. We take advantage of a reparameterization involving the Tweedie distribution to provide efficient computation. The motivating problem is the establishment of a chronology for samples taken from lake sediment cores, i.e. the attribution of a set of dates to samples of the core given their depths, knowing that the age–depth relationship is monotone. The chronological information arises from radiocarbon (14C) dating at a subset of depths. We use the process to model the stochastically varying rate of sedimentation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Compound Poisson–gamma distribution; Monotone processes; Radiocarbon dating; Tweedie distribution; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematics and Statistics Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, ICARUS |
Item ID: | 19124 |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00623.x |
Depositing User: | Andrew Parnell |
Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2024 13:01 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics |
Publisher: | Royal Statistical Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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