TY - GEN A1 - Ślęzak, Jakub A1 - Burnecki, Krzysztof A1 - Metzler, Ralf T1 - Random coefficient autoregressive processes describe Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion in heterogeneous systems T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Many studies on biological and soft matter systems report the joint presence of a linear mean-squared displacement and a non-Gaussian probability density exhibiting, for instance, exponential or stretched-Gaussian tails. This phenomenon is ascribed to the heterogeneity of the medium and is captured by random parameter models such as ‘superstatistics’ or ‘diffusing diffusivity’. Independently, scientists working in the area of time series analysis and statistics have studied a class of discrete-time processes with similar properties, namely, random coefficient autoregressive models. In this work we try to reconcile these two approaches and thus provide a bridge between physical stochastic processes and autoregressive models.Westart from the basic Langevin equation of motion with time-varying damping or diffusion coefficients and establish the link to random coefficient autoregressive processes. By exploring that link we gain access to efficient statistical methods which can help to identify data exhibiting Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 765 KW - diffusion KW - Langevin equation KW - Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion KW - diffusing diffusivity KW - superstatistics KW - autoregressive models KW - time series analysis KW - codifference Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-437923 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 765 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ślęzak, Jakub A1 - Burnecki, Krzysztof A1 - Metzler, Ralf T1 - Random coefficient autoregressive processes describe Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion in heterogeneous systems JF - New Journal of Physics N2 - Many studies on biological and soft matter systems report the joint presence of a linear mean-squared displacement and a non-Gaussian probability density exhibiting, for instance, exponential or stretched-Gaussian tails. This phenomenon is ascribed to the heterogeneity of the medium and is captured by random parameter models such as ‘superstatistics’ or ‘diffusing diffusivity’. Independently, scientists working in the area of time series analysis and statistics have studied a class of discrete-time processes with similar properties, namely, random coefficient autoregressive models. In this work we try to reconcile these two approaches and thus provide a bridge between physical stochastic processes and autoregressive models.Westart from the basic Langevin equation of motion with time-varying damping or diffusion coefficients and establish the link to random coefficient autoregressive processes. By exploring that link we gain access to efficient statistical methods which can help to identify data exhibiting Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion. KW - diffusion KW - Langevin equation KW - Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion KW - diffusing diffusivity KW - superstatistics KW - autoregressive models KW - time series analysis KW - codifference Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab3366 SN - 1367-2630 VL - 21 PB - Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft ; IOP, Institute of Physics CY - Bad Honnef und London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burnecki, Krzysztof A1 - Wylomanska, Agnieszka A1 - Beletskii, Aleksei A1 - Gonchar, Vsevolod A1 - Chechkin, Aleksei V. T1 - Recognition of stable distribution with levy index alpha close to 2 JF - Physical review : E, Statistical, nonlinear and soft matter physics N2 - We address the problem of recognizing alpha-stable Levy distribution with Levy index close to 2 from experimental data. We are interested in the case when the sample size of available data is not large, thus the power law asymptotics of the distribution is not clearly detectable, and the shape of the empirical probability density function is close to a Gaussian. We propose a testing procedure combining a simple visual test based on empirical fourth moment with the Anderson-Darling and Jarque-Bera statistical tests and we check the efficiency of the method on simulated data. Furthermore, we apply our method to the analysis of turbulent plasma density and potential fluctuations measured in the stellarator-type fusion device and demonstrate that the phenomenon of the L-H transition from low confinement, L mode, to a high confinement, H mode, which occurs in this device is accompanied by the transition from Levy to Gaussian fluctuation statistics. Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.056711 SN - 1539-3755 VL - 85 IS - 5 PB - American Physical Society CY - College Park ER -