Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 17, No. 5, Special Issue: Modelling and Forecasting Financial Volatility (Sep. - Oct., 2002), pp. 509-534 (26 pages) Theoretical and practical interest in ...
Nonparametric identification and maximum likelihood estimation for finite-state hidden Markov models are investigated. We obtain identification of the parameters as well as the order of the Markov ...
Bayesian estimation and maximum likelihood methods represent two central paradigms in modern statistical inference. Bayesian estimation incorporates prior beliefs through Bayes’ theorem, updating ...