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Cambridge University Press, Advances in Applied Probability, 04(30), p. 948-967, 1998

DOI: 10.1017/s0001867800008740

Cambridge University Press, Advances in Applied Probability, 4(30), p. 948-967

DOI: 10.1239/aap/1035228202

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Estimation of the parameters of a branching process from migrating binomial observations

Journal article published in 1998 by C. Jacob, J. Peccoud ORCID
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Abstract

This paper considers a branching process generated by an offspring distribution F with mean m < ∞ and variance σ2 < ∞ and such that, at each generation n, there is an observed δ-migration, according to a binomial law B p v n *N n bef which depends on the total population size N n bef. The δ-migration is defined as an emigration, an immigration or a null migration, depending on the value of δ, which is assumed constant throughout the different generations. The process with δ-migration is a generation-dependent Galton-Watson process, whereas the observed process is not in general a martingale. Under the assumption that the process with δ-migration is supercritical, we generalize for the observed migrating process the results relative to the Galton-Watson supercritical case that concern the asymptotic behaviour of the process and the estimation of m and σ2, as n → ∞. Moreover, an asymptotic confidence interval of the initial population size is given.