Estimation of the offspring mean in a controlled branching process with a random control function
Controlled branching processes (CBP) with a random control function provide a useful way to model generation sizes in population dynamics studies, where control on the growth of the population size is necessary at each generation. An important special case of this process is the well known branching process with immigration. Motivated by the work of Wei and Winnicki [C.Z. Wei, J. Winnicki, Estimation of the mean in the branching process with immigration, Ann. Statist. 18 (1990) 1757-1773], we develop a weighted conditional least squares estimator of the offspring mean of the CBP and derive the asymptotic limit distribution of the estimator when the process is subcritical, critical and supercritical. Moreover, we show the strong consistency of this estimator in all the cases. The results obtained here extend those of Wei and Winnicki [C.Z. Wei, J. Winnicki, Estimation of the mean in the branching process with immigration, Ann. Statist. 18 (1990) 1757-1773] for branching processes with immigration and provide a unified limit theory of estimation.
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2007
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Authors: | Sriram, T.N. ; Bhattacharya, A. ; González, M. ; Martínez, R. ; del Puerto, I. |
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Stochastic Processes and their Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0304-4149. - Vol. 117.2007, 7, p. 928-946
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Branching processes Random control function Weighted conditional least squares estimator Weak convergence Diffusion approximation |
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