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Improved Exponential Estimator for Estimating the Population Mean in the Presence of Non-Response

  • Kumar, Sunil
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.357-366
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    • 2013
  • This paper defines an improvement for estimating the population mean of a study variable using auxiliary information and known values of certain population parameter(s), when there is a non-response in a study as well as on auxiliary variables. Under a simple random sampling without a replacement (SRSWOR) scheme, the mean square error (MSE) of all proposed estimators are obtained and compared with each other. Numerical illustration is also given.

Assessing the Precision of a Jackknife Estimator

  • Park, Dae-Su
    • Management Science and Financial Engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.4-10
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    • 2003
  • We introduce a new estimator of the uncertainty of a jackknife estimate of standard error: the jack-knife-after-jackknife (JAJ). Using Monte Carlo simulation, we assess the accuracy of the JAJ in a variety of settings defined by statistic of interest, data distribution, and sample size. For comparison, we also assess the accuracy of the jackknife-after-bootstrap (JAB) estimate of the uncertainty of a bootstrap standard error. We conclude that the JAJ provides a useful new supplement to Tukey's jackknife, and the combination of jackknife and JAJ provides a useful alternative to the combination of bootstrap and JAB.

Assessing the Precision of a Jackknife Estimator

  • Park, Daesu
    • Management Science and Financial Engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2003
  • We introduce a new estimator of the uncertainty of a jackknife estimate of standard error: the jack-knife-after-jackknife (JAJ). Using Monte Carlo simulation, we assess the accuracy of the JAJ in a variety of settings defined by statistic of interest, data distribution, and sample size. For comparison, we also assess the accuracy of the jackknife-after-bootstrap (JAB) estimate of the uncertainty of a bootstrap standard error. We conclude that the JAJ provides a useful new supplement to Tukey's jackknife, and the combination of jackknife and JAJ provides a useful alternative to the combination of bootstrap and JAB.

Boundary stress resolution and its application to adaptive finite element analysis

  • Deng, Jianhui;Zheng, Hong;Ge, Xiurun
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.115-124
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    • 1998
  • A novel boundary stress resolution method is suggested in this paper, which is based upon the displacements of finite element analysis and of high precision with stress boundary condition strictly satisfied. The method is used to modify the Zienkiewicz-Zhu ($Z^2$) a posteriori error estimator and for the h-version adaptive finite element analysis of crack problems. Successful results are obtained.

Multivariate analysis of longitudinal surveys for population median

  • Priyanka, Kumari;Mittal, Richa
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.255-269
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    • 2017
  • This article explores the analysis of longitudinal surveys in which same units are investigated on several occasions. Multivariate exponential ratio type estimator has been proposed for the estimation of the finite population median at the current occasion in two occasion longitudinal surveys. Information on several additional auxiliary variables, which are stable over time and readily available on both the occasions, has been utilized. Properties of the proposed multivariate estimator, including the optimum replacement strategy, are presented. The proposed multivariate estimator is compared with the sample median estimator when there is no matching from a previous occasion and with the exponential ratio type estimator in successive sampling when information is available on only one additional auxiliary variable. The merits of the proposed estimator are justified by empirical interpretations and validated by a simulation study with the help of some natural populations.

On Estimating the Odds Ratio between Male and Female Unemployment Rate in Small Area

  • Park, Jong-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.1029-1039
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    • 2006
  • There are different kinds of methods to estimate the odds ratio for unemployment statistics in small areas, namely, the composite estimator, the Woolf estimator and the Mantel-Haenszel estimator. We can compare the reliability of these estimators according to the bias and MSE. The estimation procedures considered by this study have been applied to estimate the bias and MSE of the odds ratio between the male and female unemployment rate in some small areas. The Woolf estimator or the Mantel-Haenszel estimator is more stable than the composite estimator, but all these three estimators are similar to each other from the aspect of efficiency.

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SOME POINT ESTIMATES FOR THE SHAPE PARAMETERS OF EXPONENTIATED-WEIBULL FAMILY

  • Singh Umesh;Gupta Pramod K.;Upadhyay S.K.
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.63-77
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    • 2006
  • Maximum product of spacings estimator is proposed in this paper as a competent alternative of maximum likelihood estimator for the parameters of exponentiated-Weibull distribution, which does work even when the maximum likelihood estimator does not exist. In addition, a Bayes type estimator known as generalized maximum likelihood estimator is also obtained for both of the shape parameters of the aforesaid distribution. Though, the closed form solutions for these proposed estimators do not exist yet these can be obtained by simple appropriate numerical techniques. The relative performances of estimators are compared on the basis of their relative risk efficiencies obtained under symmetric and asymmetric losses. An example based on simulated data is considered for illustration.

Estimator of Mean Residual Life for Some Parametric Families Using Censored Data

  • Cho, Byung Yup;Choi, Kuey Chung;Choi, Sook Hee;Son, Young Nam
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.80-90
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    • 1995
  • In this paper we consider a new estimator of mean residual life(MRL) under the random censorship model, based on the partial moment of the distribution. The parameters of a partial moment are estimated by its maximum likelihood estimators when the underlying distribution is known. Though the new estimator is not a consistent estimator of the MRL, it is shown to have smaller mean squared error than the well known empirical MRL estimator for a parametric family. We also compare the proposed estimator with some other estimators in terms of MSE for exponential and lognormal distributions using censored data.

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Estimator of the Mean Residual Life for Some Parametric Families (모수족에서 평균 잔여수명의 추정량)

  • Kuey Chung Choi;Kyung Hyun Nam
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.89-100
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    • 1994
  • In this paper we consider a new estimator of mean residual life (MRL), based on the partial moment of the distribution. The parameters of a partial moment are estimated by its maximum likelihood estimators when the underlying distribution is known. Though the new estimator is not a consistent estimator of the MRL, it is shown to have smaller mean squared error than the well known empirical MRL estimator for certain parametric families. Numerical summaries of the mean squared errors of the new estimator are presented.

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A Feasible Two-Step Estimator for Seasonal Cointegration

  • Seong, Byeong-Chan
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.411-420
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    • 2008
  • This paper considers a feasible two-step estimator for seasonal cointegration as the extension of $Br{\ddot{u}}ggeman$ and $L{\ddot{u}}tkepohl$ (2005). It is shown that the reducedrank maximum likelihood(ML) estimator for seasonal cointegration can still produce occasional outliers as that for non-seasonal cointegration even though the sizes of them are not extreme as those in non-seasonal cointegration. The ML estimator(MLE) is compared with the two-step estimator in a small Monte Carlo simulation study and we find that the two-step estimator can be an attractive alternative to the MLE, especially, in a small sample.