High-accuracy instrumental variable identification of continuous-time autoregressive processes from irregularly, sampled noisy data

A computationally efficient estimator of continuous-time autoregressive (AR) process parameters from irregularly sampled data affected by discrete-time white measurement noise is presented. It is described how an instrumental variable approach can be used for estimating the AR process parameters with high accuracy. Possible estimators of the incremental variance of the driving continuous-time white noise source and of the variance of the discrete-time white measurement noise are also discussed.