Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

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Simultaneous Estimation of the Birth and Death Rate of the Linear Growth Birth and Death Process Based on Discrete Time Observation

  • ChangHyuck Oh (Professor, Department of Statistics, YeungNam University, KyungSan, 712-749, Korea)
  • Published : 1996.04.01
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Abstract

When the linear growth birth and death process observed at a set of equidistant time points, McNeil and Weiss (1997) present a method for simultaneously estimating the Malthusian parameter and the sum of the two parameters under wery restricted assumptions using a diffusion approximation. This article suggests a method, which does not require the restrictions given by Weiss, for estimating simultaneously the Malthusian parameter and the sum of the two parameters.

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