Exact MLE and asymptotic properties for nonparametric semi-Markov models

Samis Trevezas and Nikolaos Limnios

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 2011, vol. 23, issue 3, 719-739

Abstract: This article concerns maximum-likelihood estimation for discrete time homogeneous nonparametric semi-Markov models with finite state space. In particular, we present the exact maximum-likelihood estimator of the semi-Markov kernel which governs the evolution of the semi-Markov chain (SMC). We study its asymptotic properties in the following cases: (i) for one observed trajectory, when the length of the observation tends to infinity, and (ii) for parallel observations of independent copies of an SMC censored at a fixed time, when the number of copies tends to infinity. In both cases, we obtain strong consistency, asymptotic normality, and asymptotic efficiency for every finite dimensional vector of this estimator. Finally, we obtain explicit forms for the covariance matrices of the asymptotic distributions.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/10485252.2011.555543

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