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Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics 24(1) (2004) 77-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmps.1047

LIKELIHOOD AND QUASI-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION OF TRANSITION PROBABILITIES

Ewa Bakinowska and Radosław Kala

Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods
Agricultural University of Poznań
Wojska Polskiego 28, PL 60637 Poznań, Poland

Abstract

In the paper two approaches to the problem of estimation of transition probabilities are considered. The approach by McCullagh and Nelder [5], based on the independent model and the quasi-likelihood function, is compared with the approach based on the marginal model and the standard likelihood function. The estimates following from these two approaches are illustrated on a simple example which was used by McCullagh and Nelder.

Keywords: likelihood estimation, quasi-likelihood estimation, transition probabilities, quasi-information matrix.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 62F10, 62F05.

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Received 4 October 2003