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CHARACTERIZATION OF EFFICIENT SEQUENTIAL SCHEMES FOR POPULATION GROWTH MODELS 1
Author(s) -
Manjunath S. M.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 0004-9581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1985.tb00573.x
Subject(s) - queue , birth–death process , poisson distribution , simple (philosophy) , characterization (materials science) , population , computer science , mathematics , statistics , demography , computer network , philosophy , epistemology , sociology , materials science , nanotechnology
Summary For population growth models, which include standard processes like Poisson, birth, birth‐death, immigration‐death, simple epidemic and M/M/1 queue as particular cases, we obtain efficient sequential schemes and characterize all efficiently estimable functions of the parameters by first deriving a sequential version of the information inequality.