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Communications in Statistics. Stochastic Models

Volume 10, Issue 4, 1994

Parameter estimation for Markov modulated poisson processes

Parameter estimation for Markov modulated poisson processes

DOI:
10.1080/15326349408807323
Tobias Rydéna

pages 795-829

Available online: 18 May 2010

Abstract

A Markov modulated Poisson process (MMPP) is a doubly stochastic Poisson process whose intensity is controlled by a finite state continuous-time Markov chain. MMPPs have during the last decade been used to model traffic flows in communication networks as well as environmental data. We give a brief survey of methods, most of which are based on moment matching, that have earlier been proposed for estimating the parameters of MMPPs. Then we turn to likelihood based methods, prove a strong consistency property of the maximum likelihood estimator, and discuss some practical methods for calculating MLEs for two-state MMPPs

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  • Available online: 18 May 2010

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  • a Department of Mathematical Statistics, Lund Institute of Technology, Box 118, Lund, S-221 00, Sweden

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