SFB 303 Discussion Paper No. A - 486
Author: Utikal, Klaus J.
Title: Markovian interval processes I: Nonparametric inference
Abstract: Consider a p-variate counting process N = (...) with jump times {...}.
Suppose that the intensity of jumps ... of ... at time t depends on the
other components, i. e. ..., where the ... are unknown, nonrandom functions.
From observing one single trajectory of the processes N over an
increasing interval of time we estimate nonparametrically the functions ...
The estimators are shown to be uniformly consistent over compact sets. We
derive a nonparametric asymptotic test for the hypothesis that ... does not
depend on ... i. e. that ... is a renewal process. In Part II the results
obtained are applied in the analysis of simultaneous neuronal spike train
series.
Keywords: counting process regression, nonparametric functional estimation,
intensity, Markov process, renewal process, martingale central limit
theorem, sequential Aalen estimator, kernel function smoothing,
goodness-of-fit test
JEL-Classification-Number: C13, C14
Creation-Date: July 1995
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