TY  - INPR
A1  - Pénisson, Sophie
T1  - Estimation of the infection parameter in the different phases of an epidemic modeled by a branching process
N2  - The aim of this paper is to build and compare estimators of the infection parameter in the different phases of an epidemic (growth and extinction phases). The epidemic is modeled by a Markovian process of order d > 1 (allowing non-Markovian life spans), and can be written as a multitype branching process. We propose three estimators suitable for the different classes of criticality of the process, in particular for the subcritical case corresponding to the extinction phase. We prove their consistency and asymptotic normality for two asymptotics, when the number of ancestors (resp. number of generations) tends to infinity. We illustrate the asymptotic properties with simulated examples, and finally use our estimators to study the infection intensity in the extinction phase of the BSE epidemic in Great-Britain.
T3  - Mathematische Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie : Preprint - 2010, 04 
Y1  - 2011
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4909
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49607
ER  -