Convergence, consistency, stability and pathwise positivity of balanced Milstein methods for numerical integration of ordinary stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are discussed. This family of numerical methods represents a class of highly efficient linear-implicit schemes which generate mean square converging numerical approximations with qualitative improvements and global rate 1.0 of me...

We propose an analytical bias correction for the maximum likelihood estimators of the G0 I distribution. This distribution is a very powerful tool for speckled imagery analysis, since it is capable of describing a wide range of target roughness. We compare the performance of the corrected estimators with the corresponding original version using Monte Carlo simulation. This second-order bias cor...