Estimation for continuous branching processes

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-126

  Overbeck, Ludger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Landeszentralbank   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous branching processes; Local asymptotic (mixed) normality; Maximum likelihood estimator; Squared bessel processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032392166     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00092     Document Type: Article

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