ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY;
GALTON-WATSON PROCESS;
MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;
PROBABILITY OF ULTIMATE EXTINCTION;
STRONG CONSISTENCY;
D O I:
10.1080/03610929108830711
中图分类号:
O21 [概率论与数理统计];
C8 [统计学];
学科分类号:
020208 ;
070103 ;
0714 ;
摘要:
Maximum likelihood estimation of the probability of ultimate extinction of a possibly age dependent multitype branching process is studied when independent random samples from offspring distributions are available. In multitype Galton-Watson branching process the same problem is discussed when all the individual offspring sizes of all individuals in the first n generations are observed. In both the cases asymptotic properties of the estimators are derived.