Estimation of an Asymmetric Stochastic Volatility Model for Asset Returns

A stochastic volatility model may be estimated by a quasi-maximum likelihood procedure by transforming to a linear state-space form. The method is extended to handle correlation between the two disturbances in the model and applied to data on stock returns     

Evaluating Efficiency-Equality Tradeoffs for Mobile Source Control Strategies in an Urban Area

In environmental risk management, there are often interests in maximizing public health benefits (efficiency) and addressing inequality in the distribution of health outcomes. However, both dimensions are not generally considered within a single analytical framework. In this study, we estimate both total population health benefits and changes in quantitative indicators of health inequality for a number of alternative spatial distributions of diesel particulate filter retrofits across half of an urban bus fleet in Boston, Massachusetts. We focus on the impact of emissions controls on primary fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) emissions, modeling the effect on PM_2.5 concentrations and premature mortality. Given spatial heterogeneity in baseline mortality rates, we apply the Atkinson index and other inequality indicators to quantify changes in the distribution of mortality risk. Across the different spatial distributions of control strategies, the public health benefits varied by more than a factor of two, related to factors such as mileage driven per day, population density near roadways, and baseline mortality rates in exposed populations. Changes in health inequality indicators varied across control strategies, with the subset of optimal strategies considering both efficiency and equality generally robust across different parametric assumptions and inequality indicators. Our analysis demonstrates the viability of formal analytical approaches to jointly address both efficiency and equality in risk assessment, providing a tool for decisionmakers who wish to consider both issues.     

Analysis of spatial frailty models by a weighted estimating equation

Spatially correlated survival data are frequently observed in ecological and epidemiological studies. An assumption in the clustered survival models is inter-cluster independence, which may not be adequate to model the dependence in spatial settings. For survival data, the likelihood function based on a spatial frailty may be complicated. In this paper, we develop a weighted estimating equation for spatially right-censored data. Some large sample properties for the estimate are developed. We also conduct simulations to compare estimation performance with other methods. A data set from a study of forest decline in Wisconsin is used to illustrate the proposed method.     

Estimation of binomial parameters when both , are unknown

We revisit the classic problem of estimation of the binomial parameters when both parameters n,p are unknown. We start with a series of results that illustrate the fundamental difficulties in the problem. Specifically, we establish lack of unbiased estimates for essentially any functions of just n or just p. We also quantify just how badly biased the sample maximum is as an estimator of n. Then, we motivate and present two new estimators of n. One is a new moment estimate and the other is a bias correction of the sample maximum. Both are easy to motivate, compute, and jackknife. The second estimate frequently beats most common estimates of n in the simulations, including the Carroll–Lombard estimate. This estimate is very promising. We end with a family of estimates for p; a specific one from the family is compared to the presently common estimate and the improvements in mean-squared error are often very significant. In all cases, the asymptotics are derived in one domain. Some other possible estimates such as a truncated MLE and empirical Bayes methods are briefly discussed.     

基于SEM方法的PPP项目绩效影响因素分析

在综合考虑PPP项目中的独立监管机构、私营机构、政府部门和社会公众等利益目标的基础上,提出了9个测量PPP项目绩效的关键指标。对现有的PPP项目绩效影响因素进行了分析比较,识别出PPP项目绩效的3大影响因素和18个可测量的子因素,并构建了分析PPP项目绩效影响因素的结构方程模型。结果表明,PPP项目的特征因素与项目绩效的好坏有直接的关系,项目环境和项目参与人因素的影响相对较弱,参与方的满意度、项目的功能和质量对PPP项目绩效最具有解释能力。     

高等学校岗位绩效工资实施策略研究

在非线性条件下，扩展Kalman滤波(EKF)的应用最为广泛。但是，由于它采用了Taylor展开的线性变换来近似非线性模型，因而存在计算量大、实时性差、估计精度低等缺点。粒子滤波(PF)用一些带有权值的随机样本(粒子)来表示所需要的后验概率密度，并通过这些粒子的加权来估计目标运动的状态，从而得到基于物理模型的近似最优数值解，具有精度高、收敛速度快等特点。通过仿真实验将PF与EKF的性能进行了对比，并且研究了噪声协方差与粒子数对PF的影响。PF与EKF的对比实验结果表明，在强非线性条件下，PF比EKF跟踪精     

时滞交联系统的H_∞滤波设计

基于T-S模糊模型方法,针对一类时滞交联系统,提出了一种集中H∞滤波设计新方案.通过构造新的模糊线积分李雅普诺夫泛函,给出了整体滤波误差系统时滞相关的集中H∞滤波设计LMI条件,降低了性能指标的保守性.最后通过仿真例子说明了所提方法的有效性和优越性.     

Extrapolation and confounding in accelerated material degradation and failure studies

The fundamental difficulty with inference in nontrivial extrapolation where model selection is involved from a rich space of models is that any model estimated in one regime used for decision making in another is fundamentally confounded with disruptive alternatives. These are alternative models which if true would support a diametrically opposed action from the one the estimated model supports. One strategy to support extrapolation and reduce arbitrary fitting and confounding is to force the model to derive from the same mathematical structure that underlies the substantive science appropriate for the phenomena. Then statistical model fitting follows the form of theory generation in artificial intelligence, with statistical model selection tools and the statistician taking the place of the inference engine.     

有关椭球面轨迹问题的研究

对有关椭球面的轨迹问题作了研究,得出了两个重要的定理。     

SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF THE ERROR DISTRIBUTION IN MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION USING COPULAS

A semiparametric method is developed to estimate the dependence parameter and the joint distribution of the error term in the multivariate linear regression model. The nonparametric part of the method treats the marginal distributions of the error term as unknown, and estimates them using suitable empirical distribution functions. Then the dependence parameter is estimated by either maximizing a pseudolikelihood or solving an estimating equation. It is shown that this estimator is asymptotically normal, and a consistent estimator of its large sample variance is given. A simulation study shows that the proposed semiparametric method is better than the parametric ones available when the error distribution is unknown, which is almost always the case in practice. It turns out that there is no loss of asymptotic efficiency as a result of the estimation of regression parameters. An empirical example on portfolio management is used to illustrate the method.