Parameter estimation for fractional birth and fractional death processes

DOI10.1007/S11222-012-9365-1zbMATH Open1325.62155arXiv1303.6690OpenAlexW3099675258MaRDI QIDQ892463FDOQ892463

Authors: Dexter O. Cahoy, Federico Polito 

Publication date: 19 November 2015

Published in: Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The fractional birth and the fractional death processes are more desirable in practice than their classical counterparts as they naturally provide greater flexibility in modeling growing and decreasing systems. In this paper, we propose formal parameter estimation procedures for the fractional Yule, the fractional linear death, and the fractional sublinear death processes. The methods use all available data possible, are computationally simple and asymptotically unbiased. The procedures exploited the natural structure of the random inter-birth and inter-death times that are known to be independent but are not identically distributed. We also showed how these methods can be applied to certain models with more general birth and death rates. The computational tests showed favorable results for our proposed methods even with relatively small sample sizes. The proposed methods are also illustrated using the branching times of the plethodontid salamanders data of cite{hal79}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6690

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zbMATH Keywords

Yule-Furry processYule processMittag-Lefflerbirth processdeath process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Fractional processes, including fractional Brownian motion (60G22) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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