Inference for Age-dependent Branching Process and Their Applications

dc.contributor.advisor	Vidyashankar, Anand N.
dc.contributor.author	Cao, Xin
dc.creator	Cao, Xin
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-29T18:42:50Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-29T18:42:50Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1920/9703
dc.description.abstract	Age-dependent branching processes arise in multiple areas of scientific applications such as cell biology, epidemic spread, and medical science. Researchers have shown that the size of the process grows exponentially fast with some rate depending on the offspring distribution and the life-time distribution of the particles, but the inference for such a rate has not been well-studied in the literature.
dc.format.extent	83 pages
dc.language.iso	en
dc.rights	Copyright 2015 Xin Cao
dc.subject	Statistics	en_US
dc.subject	Age-dependent Branching Process	en_US
dc.subject	cell proliferation	en_US
dc.subject	Malthusian Parameter	en_US
dc.subject	Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimator	en_US
dc.title	Inference for Age-dependent Branching Process and Their Applications
dc.type	Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.level	Doctoral	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Statistical Science	en
thesis.degree.grantor	George Mason University	en