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Gauss M. Cordeiro & Klaus L.P. Vasconcellos 《Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics》1999,41(2):189-198
This paper discusses issues related to the improvement of maximum likelihood estimates in von Mises regression models. It obtains general matrix expressions for the second-order biases of maximum likelihood estimates of the mean parameters and concentration parameters. The formulae are simple to compute, and give the biases by means of weighted linear regressions. Simulation results are presented assessing the performance of corrected maximum likelihood estimates in these models. 相似文献
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Inference for the Extended Bifurcating Autoregressive Model for Cell Lineage Studies 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Huggins & Basawa (1999) proposed several extensions of the bifurcating autoregressive model used to model cell lineage trees. These models overcame limitations in the original bifurcating autoregressive mode by allowing larger correlations between cousin cells and other cells in the same generation. Huggins & Basawa only considered maximum likelihood inference based on independent trees. This paper examines the asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimators based on a single large tree. 相似文献
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Model-based clustering of Gaussian copulas for mixed data 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Clustering of mixed data is important yet challenging due to a shortage of conventional distributions for such data. In this article, we propose a mixture model of Gaussian copulas for clustering mixed data. Indeed copulas, and Gaussian copulas in particular, are powerful tools for easily modeling the distribution of multivariate variables. This model clusters data sets with continuous, integer, and ordinal variables (all having a cumulative distribution function) by considering the intra-component dependencies in a similar way to the Gaussian mixture. Indeed, each component of the Gaussian copula mixture produces a correlation coefficient for each pair of variables and its univariate margins follow standard distributions (Gaussian, Poisson, and ordered multinomial) depending on the nature of the variable (continuous, integer, or ordinal). As an interesting by-product, this model generalizes many well-known approaches and provides tools for visualization based on its parameters. The Bayesian inference is achieved with a Metropolis-within-Gibbs sampler. The numerical experiments, on simulated and real data, illustrate the benefits of the proposed model: flexible and meaningful parameterization combined with visualization features. 相似文献
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Merlise Clyde & Edward I. George 《Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology》2000,62(4):681-698
Wavelet shrinkage estimation is an increasingly popular method for signal denoising and compression. Although Bayes estimators can provide excellent mean-squared error (MSE) properties, the selection of an effective prior is a difficult task. To address this problem, we propose empirical Bayes (EB) prior selection methods for various error distributions including the normal and the heavier-tailed Student t -distributions. Under such EB prior distributions, we obtain threshold shrinkage estimators based on model selection, and multiple-shrinkage estimators based on model averaging. These EB estimators are seen to be computationally competitive with standard classical thresholding methods, and to be robust to outliers in both the data and wavelet domains. Simulated and real examples are used to illustrate the flexibility and improved MSE performance of these methods in a wide variety of settings. 相似文献
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In this article, the generalized linear model for longitudinal data is studied. A generalized empirical likelihood method is proposed by combining generalized estimating equations and quadratic inference functions based on the working correlation matrix. It is proved that the proposed generalized empirical likelihood ratios are asymptotically chi-squared under some suitable conditions, and hence it can be used to construct the confidence regions of the parameters. In addition, the maximum empirical likelihood estimates of parameters are obtained, and their asymptotic normalities are proved. Some simulations are undertaken to compare the generalized empirical likelihood and normal approximation-based method in terms of coverage accuracies and average areas/lengths of confidence regions/intervals. An example of a real data is used for illustrating our methods. 相似文献
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《Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation》2012,82(2):320-338
This paper investigates on the problem of parameter estimation in statistical model when observations are intervals assumed to be related to underlying crisp realizations of a random sample. The proposed approach relies on the extension of likelihood function in interval setting. A maximum likelihood estimate of the parameter of interest may then be defined as a crisp value maximizing the generalized likelihood function. Using the expectation-maximization (EM) to solve such maximizing problem therefore derives the so-called interval-valued EM algorithm (IEM), which makes it possible to solve a wide range of statistical problems involving interval-valued data. To show the performance of IEM, the following two classical problems are illustrated: univariate normal mean and variance estimation from interval-valued samples, and multiple linear/nonlinear regression with crisp inputs and interval output. 相似文献
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半参数纵向模型的惩罚二次推断函数估计 总被引:1,自引:3,他引:1
针对纵向数据半参数模型E(y|x,t)=XTβ+f(t),采用惩罚二次推断函数方法同时估计模型中的回归参数β和未知光滑函数f(t)。首先利用截断幂函数基对未知光滑函数进行基函数展开近似,然后利用惩罚样条的思想构造关于回归参数和基函数系数的惩罚二次推断函数,最小化惩罚二次推断函数便可得到回归参数和基函数系数的惩罚二次推断函数估计。理论结果显示,估计结果具有相合性和渐近正态性,通过数值方法也得到了较好的模拟结果。 相似文献
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The generalized normal Laplace distribution has been used in financial modeling because of its skewness and excess kurtosis. To estimate its parameters, we use a method based on minimizing the quadratic distance between the real and imaginary parts of the empirical and theoretical characteristic functions. The quadratic distance estimator (QDE) obtained is shown to be robust, consistent, and with an asymptotically normal distribution. The goodness-of-fit test statistics presented follow an asymptotic chi-square distribution. The performance of the QDE is illustrated by simulation results and an application to financial data. 相似文献
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Claudia Czado 《统计学通讯:理论与方法》2013,42(8):2259-2274
Parametric link transformation families have shown to be useful in the analysis of binary regression data since they avoid th? problem of link misspecifaction. Inference for these models are commonly based on likelihood methods. Duffy and Santner (1988, 1989) however showed that ordinary logistic maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) have poor mean square error (MSE) behavior in small samples compared to alternative norm restricted estimators. This paper extends these alternative norm restricted estimators to binary regression models with any specified parametric link family. These extended norm restricted MLE's are strongly consistent and efficient under regularity conditions. Finally a simulation study shows that an empiric version of norm restricted MLE's exhibit superior MSE behavior in small samples compared to MLE's with fixed known link. 相似文献
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We discuss the maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) of the parameters of the log-gamma distribution based on progressively Type-II censored samples. We use the profile likelihood approach to tackle the problem of the estimation of the shape parameter κ. We derive approximate maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters μ and σ and use them as initial values in the determination of the MLEs through the Newton–Raphson method. Next, we discuss the EM algorithm and propose a modified EM algorithm for the determination of the MLEs. A simulation study is conducted to evaluate the bias and mean square error of these estimators and examine their behavior as the progressive censoring scheme and the shape parameter vary. We also discuss the interval estimation of the parameters μ and σ and show that the intervals based on the asymptotic normality of MLEs have very poor probability coverages for small values of m. Finally, we present two examples to illustrate all the methods of inference discussed in this paper. 相似文献
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We propose an empirical Bayes method for evaluating overall and study-specific treatment effects in multivariate meta-analysis with binary outcome. Instead of modeling transformed proportions or risks via commonly used multivariate general or generalized linear models, we directly model the risks without any transformation. The exact posterior distribution of the study-specific relative risk is derived. The hyperparameters in the posterior distribution can be inferred through an empirical Bayes procedure. As our method does not rely on the choice of transformation, it provides a flexible alternative to the existing methods and in addition, the correlation parameter can be intuitively interpreted as the correlation coefficient between risks. 相似文献
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In this article, we propose a new empirical likelihood method for linear regression analysis with a right censored response variable. The method is based on the synthetic data approach for censored linear regression analysis. A log-empirical likelihood ratio test statistic for the entire regression coefficients vector is developed and we show that it converges to a standard chi-squared distribution. The proposed method can also be used to make inferences about linear combinations of the regression coefficients. Moreover, the proposed empirical likelihood ratio provides a way to combine different normal equations derived from various synthetic response variables. Maximizing this empirical likelihood ratio yields a maximum empirical likelihood estimator which is asymptotically equivalent to the solution of the estimating equation that are optimal linear combination of the original normal equations. It improves the estimation efficiency. The method is illustrated by some Monte Carlo simulation studies as well as a real example. 相似文献
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Wen-Liang Hung Shou-Jen Chang-Chien Miin-Shen Yang 《Journal of applied statistics》2012,39(10):2259-2274
The EM algorithm is the standard method for estimating the parameters in finite mixture models. Yang and Pan [25] proposed a generalized classification maximum likelihood procedure, called the fuzzy c-directions (FCD) clustering algorithm, for estimating the parameters in mixtures of von Mises distributions. Two main drawbacks of the EM algorithm are its slow convergence and the dependence of the solution on the initial value used. The choice of initial values is of great importance in the algorithm-based literature as it can heavily influence the speed of convergence of the algorithm and its ability to locate the global maximum. On the other hand, the algorithmic frameworks of EM and FCD are closely related. Therefore, the drawbacks of FCD are the same as those of the EM algorithm. To resolve these problems, this paper proposes another clustering algorithm, which can self-organize local optimal cluster numbers without using cluster validity functions. These numerical results clearly indicate that the proposed algorithm is superior in performance of EM and FCD algorithms. Finally, we apply the proposed algorithm to two real data sets. 相似文献
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Xuemei Hu 《统计学通讯:理论与方法》2014,43(18):3927-3942
Semivarying-coefficient models with heteroscedastic errors are frequently used in statistical modeling. When the error is conditional heteroskedastic, Ahmad, et al. (2005) proposed a general series method to obtain an efficient estimation. In this article we study the heteroscedastic semi-varying coefficient models with a nonparametric variance function, not only use the semi-parametric efficient normal approximation method to derive a family of semi-parametric efficient estimator, but also use the semi-parametric efficient empirical likelihood method to construct the efficient empirical likelihood confidence regions. The proposed estimators retain the double robustness feature of semi-parametric efficient estimator. 相似文献
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Tao Zhang 《统计学通讯:理论与方法》2013,42(18):3230-3244
We consider statistical inference for longitudinal partially linear models when the response variable is sometimes missing with missingness probability depending on the covariate that is measured with error. The block empirical likelihood procedure is used to estimate the regression coefficients and residual adjusted block empirical likelihood is employed for the baseline function. This leads us to prove a nonparametric version of Wilk's theorem. Compared with methods based on normal approximations, our proposed method does not require a consistent estimators for the asymptotic variance and bias. An application to a longitudinal study is used to illustrate the procedure developed here. A simulation study is also reported. 相似文献
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Xing Wu 《统计学通讯:理论与方法》2013,42(24):7242-7257
ABSTRACTIn this article, we study the estimation for a class of semiparametric mixtures of generalized linear models where mixing proportions depend on a covariate non parametrically. We investigate a backfitting estimation procedure and show the asymptotic normality of the proposed estimators under mild conditions. We conduct simulation to show the good performance of our methodology and give a real data analysis as an illustration. 相似文献
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In this article, we consider empirical likelihood inference for the parameter in the additive partially linear models when the linear covariate is measured with error. By correcting for attenuation, a corrected-attenuation empirical log-likelihood ratio statistic for the unknown parameter β, which is of primary interest, is suggested. We show that the proposed statistic is asymptotically standard chi-square distribution without requiring the undersmoothing of the nonparametric components, and hence it can be directly used to construct the confidence region for the parameter β. Some simulations indicate that, in terms of comparison between coverage probabilities and average lengths of the confidence intervals, the proposed method performs better than the profile-based least-squares method. We also give the maximum empirical likelihood estimator (MELE) for the unknown parameter β, and prove the MELE is asymptotically normal under some mild conditions. 相似文献