Drift Inference for Unit-Root Galton-Watson Processes with Immigration
带移民的单位根Galton–Watson过程的漂移推断
We study inference on the drift of a critical Galton--Watson process with immigration, a count time series with a unit root. Climate change motivates such nonstationary models for weather-related disaster counts. The drift is the expected increase in the count per period. Ordinary least squares is inconsistent for the drift, so we study state-weighted least squares, giving greater weight to observations following small counts, where conditional variance is lower. Under…