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Derivation of the likelihood function for the counting process

계수과정의 우도함수 유도

  • Received : 2013.12.19
  • Accepted : 2014.01.12
  • Published : 2014.01.31
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Abstract

Counting processes are widely used in many fields, whose properties are determined by the intensity function. For estimation of the parameters of the intensity functions when the process is observed continuously over a fixed interval, the likelihood function is of interest. However in the literature there are only heuristic derivations and some results are not coincident. We thus in this note derive the likelihood function of the counting process in a rigorous way. So this note fill up a hole in derivation of the likelihood function.

계수과정은 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있으며 그 성질은 강도함수에 의해 결정된다. 일정 구간에서 연속적으로 과정이 관측될 때, 우도함수를 이용하여 강도함수의 모수를 추정할 수 있다. 그러나 기존의 연구는 직관적인 방법에 의한 우도함수 유도이며, 여러 명의 저자에 의해 얻은 우도함수가 일치하지 않아 우도함수를 이용한 최우추정치를 구하는 문제 등의 적용에 어려움이 발생하고 있다. 따라서 이 단신연구에서는 계수과정의 우도함수를 엄밀한 방법으로 유도하여 기존의 문제점을 해결한다.

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