Hung, Ying; Wang, Yijie; Zarnitsyna, Veronika; Zhu, Cheng; … - In: Journal of the American Statistical Association 108 (2013) 504, pp. 1469-1479
Estimation of the number of hidden states is challenging in hidden Markov models. Motivated by the analysis of a specific type of cell adhesion experiments, a new framework based on a hidden Markov model and double penalized order selection is proposed. The order selection procedure is shown to...