The saddlepoint approximation for a general birth process

DOI10.2307/3213912MaRDI QIDQ3940607zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henry E. Daniels

Publication date 1982

Published in Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/3213912

zbMATH Keywords

birth processsaddlepoint approximationsimple epidemic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Applications of branching processes (60J85)

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• Asymptotic accuracy of the saddlepoint approximation for maximum likelihood estimation
• Parameter estimation for multivariate population processes: a saddlepoint approach
• Parameter estimation for discretely observed linear birth‐and‐death processes
• A simple algorithm for computing the probabilities of count models based on pure birth processes

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