Moment Estimation In The Class Of Bisexual Branching Processes With Population-Size Dependent Mating

This paper concerns the estimation of the offspring mean vector, the covariance matrix and the growth rate in the class of bisexual branching processes with population-size dependent mating. For the proposed estimators, some unconditional moments and some conditioned to non-extinction are determined and asymptotic properties are established. Confidence intervals are obtained and, as illustration, a simulation example is given.