In: Statistics and Probability
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The class of all stochastic processes is too large to work with in practice. We consider only the subclass of stationary processes.
{Xt} is said to be completely stationary if, for all n 1, for any t1,t2, . . . ,tn T,
and for any such that t1+,t2+ , . . . ,tn+ T are also contained in the index set,
the joint cdf of {Xt1 , Xt2 , . . . , Xtn } is the same as that of {Xt1+ , Xt2+ , . . . , Xtn+}
i.e., Ft1,t2,...,tn (a1, a2, . . . , an) = Ft1+,t2+,...,tn+(a1, a2, . . . , an),
so that the probabilistic structure of a completely stationary process is invariant under a shift in time