Weighted estimation and tracking for Bienaymé Galton Watson processes with adaptive control (Q1962225)

The aim of the paper is to consider a Bienaymé-Galton-Watson (BGW) process that depends on the offspring distribution, and to add an adaptive control to the BGW process in order to estimate the mean and the variance of the offspring distribution as unknown parameters. The adaptive control also forces the BGW process to track, step by step, a given reference trajectory. In these conditions, the author establishes asymptotic results for weighted estimation of the mean and the variance of the offspring distribution.