An \textit{EM} algorithm for the model fitting of Markovian binary trees

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2013.08.015zbMath1471.62088MaRDI QIDQ1615204

Sophie Hautphenne, Mark Fackrell

Publication date: 2 November 2018

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2013.08.015

zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimation; EM algorithm; branching process; Markovian binary tree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics

62F10: Point estimation

62M05: Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models

60J80: Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.)

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Uses Software

• EMpht

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