What can or can't be estimated in branching and related processes?

DOI10.1016/0304-4149(89)90094-XzbMath0687.62071MaRDI QIDQ1263206

Philip McDunnough, Ellen Maki

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimatorsapproximate likelihoodconsistent estimationpower series familyGalton-Watson branching treeincompletely observed random walkoffspring distributionsums of family sizes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05)

Related Items (5)

Branching processes. II ⋮ Estimation in sparsely sampled random walks ⋮ The role of probability generating functions for estimation in incompletely observed random walks ⋮ Sampling a branching tree ⋮ Bayesian conjugate analysis of the Galton-Watson process

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