Zhang, Chenhua - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 81 (2011) 12, pp. 1961-1969
We study the first-order bifurcating autoregressive process Xt=ϕX⌊t/2⌋+ϵt with Weibull innovations. Using point process technique, we estimate the model parameter ϕ and the tail index α in the Weibull distribution and obtain the joint limit distribution of estimators.