• Title of article

    Exact initial conditions for maximum likelihood estimation of state space models with stochastic inputs

  • Author/Authors

    José Casals، نويسنده , , Sonia Sotoca، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1997
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    261
  • To page
    267
  • Abstract
    We derive exact expressions for the conditional mean and variance of the initial state of a State Space system with stochastic inputs, under stationarity or non-stationarity. These results provide an initialization method to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters.
  • Keywords
    State space models , Initial conditions , Stationarity , Kalman filter
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    1997
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    434453