Natural filtration

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In the theory of stochastic processes, the Natural filtration w.r.t. Xt is the filtration produced by the stochastic process {Xt} i.e. Ft is the least σ-algebra including \{ X_{t}^{-1}(B), \forall B \in \mathbf{B} \} (with B being the Borel σ-algebra). It is in a sense the simplest filtration available for studying the given process: all information concerning the process, and only that information, is available in the natural filtration.