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Efficient estimators for functionals of Markov chains with parametric marginals

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  • Penev, Spiridon
  • Peng, Hanxiang
  • Schick, Anton
  • Wefelmeyer, Wolfgang

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Suppose we observe a geometrically ergodic Markov chain with a parametric model for the marginal, but no (further) information about the transition distribution. Then the empirical estimator for a linear functional of the joint law of two successive observations is no longer efficient. We construct an improved estimator and show that it is efficient. The construction is similar to a recent one for bivariate models with parametric marginals. The result applies to discretely observed parametric continuous-time processes.

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  • Penev, Spiridon & Peng, Hanxiang & Schick, Anton & Wefelmeyer, Wolfgang, 2004. "Efficient estimators for functionals of Markov chains with parametric marginals," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 66(3), pages 335-345, February.
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