ON ESTIMATION OF POISSON INTENSITY FUNCTIONS

ROELOF HELMERS1 AND RICARDAS ZITIKIS2

1 Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Kruislaan 413,
1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2 Laboratory for Research in Statistics and Probability, Carleton University,
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6

(Received June 26, 1996; revised October 13, 1997)

Abstract.    Under the presence of only one realization, we consider a computationally simple algorithm for estimating the intensity function of a Poisson process with exponential quadratic and cyclic of fixed frequency trends. We argue that the algorithm can successfully be used to estimate any Poisson intensity function provided that it has a parametric form.

Key words and phrases:    Poisson process, point process, linear Poisson process, modulated Poisson process.

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