Sampling a branching tree

DOI10.1016/0304-4149(89)90093-8MaRDI QIDQ1263205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ellen Maki, Philip McDunnough

Publication date 1989

Published in Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4149(89)90093-8

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normalityinferencelikelihoodlimiting joint distributionsmaximum likelihood estimatoroffspring distributionspower series distributionsprobability of selecting different familiesrates of covergencesampling of a Galton-Watson branching treevector process of family sizes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05)

Review text

This paper is concerned with the sampling of a Galton-Watson branching tree, where family sizes of individuals selected at random from the population are recorded. Exact and limiting joint distributions of the sampled family sizes of two sampled individuals are derived; the probability of selecting different families is shown to tend rapidly to 1. Sampling from each of \(T+1\) consecutive generations is considered, and various inference techniques are presented, including parametric inference for the case of power series offspring distributions. Some properties of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) are discussed; for power series distributions, approximate MLEs are shown to be asymptotically normal and efficient.

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