Processes with Long Memory: Regenerative Construction and Perfect Simulation

Abstract

We present a perfect simulation algorithm for stationary processes indexed by Z, with summable memory decay. Depending on the decay, we construct the process on finite or semi-infinite intervals, explicitly from an i.i.d. uniform sequence. Even though the process has infinite memory, its value at time 0 depends only on a finite, but random, number of these uniform variables. The algorithm is based on a recent regenerative construction of these measures by Ferrari, Maass, Mart{\'ı}nez and Ney. As applications, we discuss the perfect simulation of binary autoregressions and Markov chains on the unit interval.