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Sequential estimation and asymptotic properties in birth-and-death processes 

Author: Juumlrgen Franz a
Affiliation:   a TU Dresden Sektion Mathematik, Wissenschaftsbereich Wahrscheinliehkeitstheorie und Mathematischen Statistik, Dresden
DOI: 10.1080/02331888208801642
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Statistics, Volume 13, Issue 2 1982 , pages 231 - 244
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Abstract

The problem determining and characterizing efficient sequential estimation procedures in linear birth-and-death processes with immigration is considered. Basing on the likelihood function in the case of random observation time some equations of WALD type and an inequality of RAO-CRAMEacuteR-WOLFOWITZ type are obtained. Sequential procedures with minimal variance estimators are characterized by linear equations in the sufficient statistic. Using this fact efficiently estimable functions and the associated estimators are determined. With respect to increasing sequences of stopping times the efficient estimators are strongly consistent and asymptotically normal.
Keywords: bith-and-death processes; sequential estimation problem; likelihood function; equation of moments and inequality of RAO -CRAMeacuteR- WOLFOWITZ; efficiency; consistency; asymptotical normality
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