Abstract
We introduce a new missing-data model, based on a mixture of K Markov processes, and consider the general problem of identifying its parameters. We point out in detail the main difficulties of statistical inference for such models: complete likelihood calculation, parametrization of the stationary distribution and identifiability. We propose a general tractable approach for estimating these models (admitting parametrization of the stationary distribution and identifiability) and check in detail that our assumptions are fully satisfied for a Markov mixture of two linear AR(1) models with Gaussian noise. Finally, a Monte Carlo method is proposed to calculate the split data likelihood of this model when no analytic expression for the invariant probability densities of the Markov processes is known.
Citation
Pierre Vandekerkhove. "Consistent and asymptotically normal parameter estimates for hidden Markov mixtures of Markov models." Bernoulli 11 (1) 103 - 129, January 2005. https://doi.org/10.3150/bj/1110228244
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