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Test procedures for the mean and variance simultaneously under normality

  • Park, Hyo-Il
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.563-574
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    • 2016
  • In this study, we propose several simultaneous tests to detect the difference between means and variances for the two-sample problem when the underlying distribution is normal. For this, we apply the likelihood ratio principle and propose a likelihood ratio test. We then consider a union-intersection test after identifying the likelihood statistic, a product of two individual likelihood statistics, to test the individual sub-null hypotheses. By noting that the union-intersection test can be considered a simultaneous test with combination function, also we propose simultaneous tests with combination functions to combine individual tests for each sub-null hypothesis. We apply the permutation principle to obtain the null distributions. We then provide an example to illustrate our proposed procedure and compare the efficiency among the proposed tests through a simulation study. We discuss some interesting features related to the simultaneous test as concluding remarks. Finally we show the expression of the likelihood ratio statistic with a product of two individual likelihood ratio statistics.

A Penalized Principal Components using Probabilistic PCA

  • Park, Chong-Sun;Wang, Morgan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.151-156
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    • 2003
  • Variable selection algorithm for principal component analysis using penalized likelihood method is proposed. We will adopt a probabilistic principal component idea to utilize likelihood function for the problem and use HARD penalty function to force coefficients of any irrelevant variables for each component to zero. Consistency and sparsity of coefficient estimates will be provided with results of small simulated and illustrative real examples.

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Empirical Bayes Estimate for Mixed Model with Time Effect

  • Kim, Yong-Chul
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.515-520
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    • 2002
  • In general, we use the hierarchical Poisson-gamma model for the Poisson data in generalized linear model. Time effect will be emphasized for the analysis of the observed data to be collected annually for the time period. An extended model with time effect for estimating the effect is proposed. In particularly, we discuss the Quasi likelihood function which is used to numerical approximation for the likelihood function of the parameter.

Asymmetric robust quasi-likelihood

  • Lee, Yoon-Dong;Choi, Hye-Mi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.109-112
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    • 2005
  • The robust quasi-likelihood (RQL) proposed by Cantoni & Ronchetti (2001) is a robust version of quasi-likelihood. They adopted Huber function to increase the resistance of the RQL estimator to the outliers. They considered the Huber function only of symmetric type. We extend the class of Huber function to include asymmetric types, and derived a method to find the optimal asymmetric one.

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On Asymptotic Properties of a Maximum Likelihood Estimator of Stochastically Ordered Distribution Function

  • Oh, Myongsik
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.185-191
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    • 2013
  • Kiefer (1961) studied asymptotic behavior of empirical distribution using the law of the iterated logarithm. Robertson and Wright (1974a) discussed whether this type of result would hold for a maximum likelihood estimator of a stochastically ordered distribution function; however, we show that this cannot be achieved. We provide only a partial answer to this problem. The result is applicable to both estimation and testing problems under the restriction of stochastic ordering.

Estimation for the Power Function Distribution Based on Type- II Censored Samples

  • Kang, Suk-Bok;Jung, Won-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.1335-1344
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    • 2008
  • The maximum likelihood method does not admit explicit solutions when the sample is multiply censored and progressive censored. So we shall propose some approximate maximum likelihood estimators (AMLEs) of the scale parameter for the power function distribution based on multiply Type-II censored samples and progressive Type-II censored samples when shape parameter is known. We compare the proposed estimators in the sense of the mean squared error (MSE) through Monte Carlo simulation for various censoring schemes.

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H-likelihood approach for variable selection in gamma frailty models

  • Ha, Il-Do;Cho, Geon-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.199-207
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    • 2012
  • Recently, variable selection methods using penalized likelihood with a shrink penalty function have been widely studied in various statistical models including generalized linear models and survival models. In particular, they select important variables and estimate coefficients of covariates simultaneously. In this paper, we develop a penalize h-likelihood method for variable selection in gamma frailty models. For this we use the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalty function, which satisfies a good property in variable selection. The proposed method is illustrated using simulation study and a practical data set.

Restricted maximum likelihood estimation of a censored random effects panel regression model

  • Lee, Minah;Lee, Seung-Chun
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.371-383
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    • 2019
  • Panel data sets have been developed in various areas, and many recent studies have analyzed panel, or longitudinal data sets. Maximum likelihood (ML) may be the most common statistical method for analyzing panel data models; however, the inference based on the ML estimate will have an inflated Type I error because the ML method tends to give a downwardly biased estimate of variance components when the sample size is small. The under estimation could be severe when data is incomplete. This paper proposes the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) method for a random effects panel data model with a censored dependent variable. Note that the likelihood function of the model is complex in that it includes a multidimensional integral. Many authors proposed to use integral approximation methods for the computation of likelihood function; however, it is well known that integral approximation methods are inadequate for high dimensional integrals in practice. This paper introduces to use the moments of truncated multivariate normal random vector for the calculation of multidimensional integral. In addition, a proper asymptotic standard error of REML estimate is given.

A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Edge Detection (Maximum Likelihood 기법을 이용한 Edge 검출)

  • Cho, Moon;Park, Rae-Hong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.73-84
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    • 1986
  • A statistical method is proposed which estimates an edge that is one of the basic features in image understanding. The conventional edge detection techniques are performed well for a deterministic singnal, but are not satisfactory for a statistical signal. In this paper, we use the likelihood function which takes account of the statistical property of a signal, and derive the decision function from it. We propose the maximum likelihood edge detection technique which estimates an edge point which maximizes the decision function mentioned above. We apply this technique to statistecal signals which are generated by using the random number generator. Simnulations show that the statistical edge detection technique gives satisfactory results. This technique is extended to the two-dimensional image and edges are found with a good accuracy.

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Sequential Estimation in Exponential Distribution

  • Park, Sang-Un
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.309-316
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we decompose the whole likelihood based on grouped data into conditional likelihoods and study the approximate contribution of additional inspection to the efficiency. We also combine the conditional maximum likelihood estimators to construct an approximate maximum likelihood estimator. For an exponential distribution, we see that a large inspection size does not increase the efficiency much if the failure rate is small, and the maximum likelihood estimator can be approximated with a linear function of inspection times.