Hidden markov models for time series : an introduction using R /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zucchini, W.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: MacDonald, Iain L., Langrock, Roland, 1983-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Monographs on statistics and applied probability (Series) ; 150.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries: mixtures and Markov chains
  • Hidden Markov models: definition and properties
  • Estimation by direct maximization of the likelihood
  • Estimation by the EM algorithm
  • Forecasting, decoding and state prediction
  • Model selection and checking
  • Bayesian inference for Poisson-hidden Markov models
  • R packages
  • HMMs with general state-dependent distribution
  • Covariates and other extra dependencies
  • Continuous-valued state processes
  • Hidden semi-Markov models and their representation as HMMs
  • HMMs for logitudinal data
  • Introduction to applications
  • Epileptic seizures
  • Daily rainfall occurrence
  • Eruptions of the Old Faithful geyser
  • HMMs for animal movement
  • Wind direction at Koeberg
  • Models for financial series
  • Births at Edendale Hospital
  • Homicides and suicides in Cape Town, 1986-1991
  • A model for animal behavior which incorporates feedback
  • Estimating the survival rates of Soay sheep from makr-recapture-recovery data
  • Examples of R code
  • Some proofs.