A note on estimation for gamma and stable processes

Abstract

SUMMARY Maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters of nondecreasing pure-jump gamma and stable processes based on the jumps of size greater than or equal to ε were studied in a previous paper (Basawa & Brockwell, 1978). In particular, for a single realization {X( u ), 0 ≤ u ≤ t }, the estimators for the stable process are consistent as ε ↓ 0, but this is not so for the gamma process. In the present note we derive asymptotic distributions as ε ↓ 0 for these estimators, centred and scaled as appropriate.