Maximum likelihood estimation in multitype branching processes with terminal types

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Authors Nina Daskalova

Publication date 7 November 2012

zbMATH Keywords

expectation maximizationmaximum likelihood estimationmultiple branching processoffspring distributionterminal types

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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