Estimating the Parameters of a Continuous-Time Markov Chain from Discrete-Time Data

Estimation of Markov generator matrices from discrete-time observations. The implemented approaches comprise diagonal and weighted adjustment of matrix logarithm based candidate solutions as in Israel (2001) as well as a quasi-optimization approach. Moreover, the expectation-maximization algorithm and the Gibbs sampling approach of Bladt and Sorensen (2005) are included.