Parameter estimation in a subcritical percolation model with colouring

DOI10.1080/17442508.2018.1539089MaRDI QIDQ5087019zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felix Beck, Bence Mélykúti

Publication date 8 July 2022

Published in Stochastics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08908

zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimationmethod of simulated momentsmicrofluidicspercolationuniform law of large numberscross-contaminationstrong law of large numbers with dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

Abstract: In the bond percolation model on a lattice, we colour vertices with $n_c$ colours independently at random according to Bernoulli distributions. A vertex can receive multiple colours and each of these colours is individually observable. The colours colour the entire component into which they fall. Our goal is to estimate the $n_c+1$ parameters of the model: the probabilities of colouring of single vertices and the probability with which an edge is open. The input data is the configuration of colours once the complete components have been coloured, without the information which vertices were originally coloured or which edges are open. We use a Monte Carlo method, the method of simulated moments to achieve this goal. We prove that this method is a strongly consistent estimator by proving a uniform strong law of large numbers for the vertices' weakly dependent colour values. We evaluate the method in computer tests. The motivating application is cross-contamination rate estimation for digital PCR in lab-on-a-chip microfluidic devices.

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