Inverse Gaussian Distribution - Relationship With Brownian Motion

Relationship With Brownian Motion

The stochastic process Xt given by

(where Wt is a standard Brownian motion and ) is a Brownian motion with drift ν.

Then, the first passage time for a fixed level by Xt is distributed according to an inverse-gaussian:

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