A hyperbolastic type-I diffusion process: Parameter estimation by means of the firefly algorithm Barrera, Antonio Román Román, Patricia Torres Ruiz, Francisco De Asís A stochastic diffusion process, whose mean function is a hyperbolastic curve of type I, is presented. The main characteristics of the process are studied and the problem of maximum likelihood estimation for the parameters of the process is considered. To this end, the firefly metaheuristic optimization algorithm is applied after bounding the parametric space by a stagewise procedure. Some examples based on simulated sample paths and real data illustrate this development. 2024-01-26T10:49:16Z 2024-01-26T10:49:16Z 2017-11-09 journal article Barrera, A.; Román-Román, P.; Torres-Ruiz, F. A hyperbolastic type-I diffusion process: Parameter estimation by means of the firefly algorithm, 163, 11-22, 2018. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2017.11.001 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/87352 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2017.11.001 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier