Cox process

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In

Poisson process where the intensity that varies across the underlying mathematical space (often space or time) is itself a stochastic process. The process is named after the statistician David Cox, who first published the model in 1955.[1]

Cox processes are used to generate simulations of

financial mathematics where they produce a "useful framework for modeling prices of financial instruments in which credit risk is a significant factor."[3]

Definition

Let be a random measure.

A random measure is called a Cox process directed by , if is a

Poisson process with intensity measure
.

Here, is the conditional distribution of , given .

Laplace transform

If is a Cox process directed by , then has the Laplace transform

for any positive, measurable function .

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