Using inside-outside algorithm for estimation of the offspring distribution in multitype branching processes

zbMATH Open1229.65032MaRDI QIDQ3172380FDOQ3172380

Authors: Nina Daskalova 

Publication date: 5 October 2011

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/11400

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zbMATH Keywords

expectation maximizationmaximum likelihood estimationnumerical examplesmultitype branching processesstochastic context-free grammarsoffspring distributioninside-outside algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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