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  1. 1. EM Estimation in Phase Type Models

    Författare :Marita Olsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; phase type distributions; coxian distribution; EM algorithm; I-divergence; density estimation; right censoring; interval censoring; standard error estimation; asymptotic theory; jackknife; relapse clinical trials; survival data; hidden Markov chain; I-divergence;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four articles whose theme in common is the class of phase type distributions. In the first article an EM algorithm is presented to estimate the parameters of a phase type distribution of fixed order. Also, it is shown that the algorithm can be used to approximate other continuous distributions by phase type distributions. LÄS MER