Parametric estimation for the standard and geometric telegraph process observed at discrete times

dc.creatorDe Gregorio, Alessandro
dc.creatorIacus, Stefano M.
dc.date2006-07-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:08:03Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:08:03Z
dc.descriptionThe telegraph process $X(t)$, $t>0$, (Goldstein, 1951) and the geometric telegraph process $S(t) = s_0 \exp\{(μ-\frac12σ^2)t + σX(t)\}$ with $μ$ a known constant and $σ>0$ a parameter are supposed to be observed at $n+1$ equidistant time points $t_i=iΔ_n,i=0,1,..., n$. For both models $λ$, the underlying rate of the Poisson process, is a parameter to be estimated. In the geometric case, also $σ>0$ has to be estimated. We propose different estimators of the parameters and we investigate their performance under the high frequency asymptotics, i.e. $Δ_n \to 0$, $nΔ= T<\infty$ as $n \to \infty$, with $T>0$ fixed. The process $X(t)$ in non markovian, non stationary and not ergodic thus we use approximation arguments to derive estimators. Given the complexity of the equations involved only estimators on the first model can be studied analytically. Therefore, we run an extensive Monte Carlo analysis to study the performance of the proposed estimators also for small sample size $n$.
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dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607633
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607633
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/131128
dc.subjectStatistics Theory
dc.subjectProbability
dc.subject60K99; 62M99
dc.titleParametric estimation for the standard and geometric telegraph process observed at discrete times
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