Approximate moment functions for logistic stochastic differentialequations

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a method of successive approximations for moment functions of logistic stochastic differential equations. We first reduce the system of the corresponding moment functions to an infinite system of linear ordinary differential equations. Then, we determine certain upper and lower bounds on the moment functions, and utilize these bounds to solve the resulting systems approximately via suitable truncations, iterations and a local improvement step. After obtaining some general theoretical results on the error norms and describing a general algorithm for logistic SDE, we focus on stochastic Verhulst systems in numerical implementations. We compare their moment approximations with numerical solutions via simulation-based methods that include discretizations of the pathwise solutions as well as other convergent numerical procedures like semi-implicit split-step Euler methods.