Parameter estimation for ergodic linear SDEs from partial and discrete observations

Abstract

We consider a problem of parameter estimation for the state space model described by linear stochastic differential equations. We assume that an unobservable Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process drives another observable process by the linear stochastic differential equation, and these two processes depend on some unknown parameters. We construct the quasi-likelihood estimator (QMLE) of the unknown parameters and show asymptotic properties of the estimator.