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Maximum likelihood estimator consistency for ballistic random walk in a parametric random environment

Statistics Theory 2014-02-13 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We consider a one dimensional ballistic random walk evolving in an i.i.d. parametric random environment. We provide a maximum likelihood estimation procedure of the environment parameters based on a single observation of the path till the time it reaches a distant site, and prove that this estimator is consistent as the distant site tends to infinity. We also explore the numerical performances of our estimation procedure.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6328,
  title  = {Maximum likelihood estimator consistency for ballistic random walk in a parametric random environment},
  author = {Francis Comets and Mikael Falconnet and Oleg Loukianov and Dasha Loukianova and Catherine Matias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6328},
  year   = {2014}
}
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