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 normalitylikelihoodmaximum likelihood estimatorinferencepower series distributionsoffspring distributionslimiting joint 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)

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