Computational and estimation procedures in multidimensional right-shift processes and some applications
- 1 June 1975
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Advances in Applied Probability
- Vol. 7 (2) , 349-382
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1426081
Abstract
A right-shift process is a Markov process with multidimensional finite state space on which the infinitesimal transition movement is a shifting of one unit from one coordinate to some other to its right. A multidimensional right-shift process consists ofv≧ 1 concurrent and dependent right-shift processes. In this paper applications of multidimensional right-shift processes to some well-known examples from epidemic theory, queueing theory and the Beetle probblem due to Lucien LeCam are discussed. A transformation which orders the Kolmogorov forward equations into a triangular array is provided and some computational procedures for solving the resulting system of equations are presented. One of these procedures is concerned with the problem of evaluating a given transition probability function rather than obtaining the solution to the complete system of forward equations. This particular procedure is applied to the problem of estimating the parameters of a multidimensional right-shift process which is observed at only a finite number of fixed timepoints.Keywords
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