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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF3107</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1992-3107</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A practical method for segmentation and estimation of model parameters of the processes with frequently and instantly changing properties</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Ostaševičius</surname><given-names>Egidijus</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 2600 Vilnius, Akademijos St.4, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1992</year></pub-date><volume>3</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>80</fpage><lpage>87</lpage><abstract><p>A practical method for segmentation and estimation of model parameters of processes is proposed in this paper. A pseudo-stationary random process with instantly changing properties is divided into stationary segments. Every segment is described by an autoregressive model. A maximum likehood method is used for segmentation of the random process and estimation of unknown model parameters. An example with simulated data is presented.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>random process</kwd><kwd>segmentation</kwd><kwd>maximum likelihood estimation</kwd><kwd>pseudo-stationary time series</kwd><kwd>autoregressive model</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>