The first part of the book considers some recent developments on weak dependent time series, including some new results for Markov chains as well as some developments on new notions of weak dependence. This part also intends to fill a gap between the probability and statistical literature and the dynamical system literature. The second part presents some new results on strong dependence with a special emphasis on non-linear processes and random fields currently encountered in applications. Finally, in the last part, some general estimation problems are investigated, ranging from rate of convergence of maximum likelihood estimators to efficient estimation in parametric or non-parametric time series models, with an emphasis on applications with non-stationary data.

Patrice Bertail is researcher in statistics at CREST-ENSAE, Malakoff and Professor of Statistics at the University-Paris X. Paul Doukhan is researcher in statistics at CREST-ENSAE, Malakoff and Professor of Statistics at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. Philippe Soulier is Professor of Statistics at the University-Paris X.