• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
• /
• 제9권1호
• /
• pp.13-19
• /
• 2002

In nonparametric entropy estimation, both mass and mean-preserving maximum entropy distribution (Theil, 1980) and the underlying distribution of the sample entropy (Vasicek, 1976), the most widely used entropy estimator, consist of nb mass-preserving densities based on disjoint Intervals of the simple averages of two adjacent order statistics. In this paper, we notice that those nonparametric density functions do not actually keep the mass-preserving constraint, and propose a modified sample entropy by considering the generalized 0-statistics (Kaigh and Driscoll, 1987) in averaging two adjacent order statistics. We consider the proposed estimator in a goodness of fit test for normality and compare its performance with that of the sample entropy.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
• /
• 제34권1호
• /
• pp.49-60
• /
• 2005

In this paper we introduce a nonparametric method for estimating the probability density function of detection distances in line transect sampling. The estimator is obtained using a frequency histogram density estimation method. The asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator are derived and compared with those of the kernel estimator under the assumption that the data collected satisfy the shoulder condition. We found that the asymptotic mean square error (AMSE) of the two estimators have about the same convergence rate. The formula for the optimal histogram bin width is derived which minimizes AMSE. Moreover, the performances of the corresponding k-nearest-neighbor estimators are studied through simulation techniques. In the absence of our knowledge whether the shoulder condition is valid or not a new semi-parametric model is suggested to fit the line transect data. The performances of the proposed two estimators are studied and compared with some existing nonparametric and semiparametric estimators using simulation techniques. The results demonstrate the superiority of the new estimators in most cases considered.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
• /
• 제2권
• /
• pp.45-62
• /
• 1991

신뢰수명의 검정이나 임상실험에서 대상물에 대한 관측치를 충분히 얻기 위해서는 많은 시간과 경비가 필요하거나 현실적인 제한으로 인하여 관측이 불가능한 경우가 흔히 있다. 이러한 이유로 점진적 임의중단법에 의하여 얻어진 관측치를 이용한 생존함수의 추정은 현실적으로 매우 중요하다고 하겠다. 연구에서는 점진적 임의중단된 자료를 기초로 스플라인함수를 이용하여 생존함수의 비모수적 최우추정량을 제안하고 그것의 성질과 효율성을 비교 연구한다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
• /
• 제22권6호
• /
• pp.1223-1232
• /
• 2011

Tong and Wang's estimator (2005) is a new approach to estimate the error variance using least squares method such that a simple linear regression is asymptotically derived from Rice's lag- estimator (1984). Their estimator highly depends on the setting of a regressor and weights in small sample sizes. In this article, we propose a new approach via a local quadratic approximation to set regressors in a small sample case. We estimate the error variance as the intercept using a ridge regression because the regressors have the problem of multicollinearity. From the small simulation study, the performance of our approach with some existing methods is better in small sample cases and comparable in large cases. More research is required on unequally spaced points.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
• /
• 제10권2호
• /
• pp.607-617
• /
• 2003

This paper offers a practical comparison of efficiency between local likelihood approach and conventional kernel approach in density estimation. The local likelihood estimation procedure maximizes a kernel smoothed log-likelihood function with respect to a polynomial approximation of the log likelihood function. We use two types of data driven bandwidths for each method and compare the mean integrated squares for several densities. Numerical results reveal that local log-linear approach with simple plug-in bandwidth shows better performance comparing to the standard kernel approach in heavy tailed distribution. For normal mixture density cases, standard kernel estimator with the bandwidth in Sheather and Jones(1991) dominates the others in moderately large sample size.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
• /
• 제16권4호
• /
• pp.1159-1165
• /
• 2005

Basu et al. (1998) proposed a new density-based estimator, called the minimum density power divergence estimator (MDPDE), which avoid the use of nonparametric density estimation and associated complication such as bandwidth selection. Woodward et al. (1995) examined the minimum Hellinger distance estimator (MHDE), proposed by Beran (1977), in the case of estimation of the mixture proportion in the mixture of two normals. In this article, we introduce the MDPDE for a mixture proportion, and show that both the MDPDE and the MHDE have the same asymptotic distribution at a model. Simulation study identifies some cases where the MHDE is consistently better than the MDPDE in terms of bias.

• 한국지구과학회지
• /
• 제21권2호
• /
• pp.159-167
• /
• 2000

본 연구에서는 한반도의 지진활동을 공간 통계학 방법을 이용하여 지진발생의 무작위성에 대한 검정과 집중도의 추정을 수행하였다. 무작위성에 대한 통계적 검정은 검정통계량을 이용한 방법과 경험분포를 이용한 두 가지 방법을 사용하였다. 역사지진과 계기지진의 두 대상자료에 대하여 적용한 결과, 두 자료 모두 무작위적이지 않고 군집적인 분포를 가지고 있는 것으로 판명되었다. 한편 비모수 밀도함수 추정방법을 이용한 진앙지 분포의 집중도는 역사지진의 경우 한반도 중부, 충남, 전북, 경북지역에서 높게 나타났다. 또한 계기지진의 경우에는 황해도-충남 해안-경북 내륙을 연결하는 "L"자 형태의 집중도를 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
• /
• 제27권5호
• /
• pp.1155-1168
• /
• 2016

기상 자료의 경우 한 지역의 기후가 인접지역의 기후와 비슷한 양상을 띄고 각 지역의 확률 밀도 함수 (probability density function)가 잘 알려진 확률 모형을 따르지 않는다는 것이 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 특성을 고려하여 이상 기후 현상이 뚜렷히 나타나는 여름철 평균 극한 기온(extreme temperature)의 확률 밀도 함수를 추정하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 공간적 상관관계 (spatial correlation)를 고려하는 비모수 베이지안 (nonparametric Bayesian) 모형인 조건부 자기회귀 종추출 혼합모형 (mixtures of conditional autoregression species sampling model)을 이용하였다. 자료는 이스트앵글리아 대학교 (University of East Anglia)에서 제공하는 전 지구의 최대 기온과 최소 기온자료 중 우리나라에 해당하는 지역의 자료를 사용하였다.

• 응용통계연구
• /
• 제23권6호
• /
• pp.1245-1253
• /
• 2010

There are two main approaches for estimating the discontinuous regression function nonparametrically. One is the direct approach, the other is the indirect approach. The major goal of the two approaches are different. The direct approach focuses on the overall good estimation of the regression function itself, whereas the indirect approach focuses on the good estimation of jump locations. Apparently, the two approaches are quite different in nature. Gijbels et al. (2007) argue that the comparison of two approaches does not make much sense and that it is even difficult to choose an appropriate criterion for comparisons. However, it is obvious that the indirect approach also has the regression curve estimate as the subsidiary result. Therefore it is necessary to verify the appropriateness of the indirect approach as the estimator of the discontinuous regression function itself. Park (2009a) compared the performance of two approaches through a simulation study. In this paper, we consider a more general case and draw some useful conclusions.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
• /
• 제33권2호
• /
• pp.191-202
• /
• 2004

The paper considers nonparametric empirical Bayes estimation of residual survival function at age t using a Dirichlet process prior V(a). Empirical Bayes estimators are proposed for the case where both the function ${\alpha}$(0, $\chi$] and the size a(R$\^$+/) are unknown. It is shown that the proposed empirical Bayes estimators are asymptotically optimal at a rate n$\^$-1/, where n is the number of past data available for the present estimation problem. Therefore, the result of Lahiri and Park (1988) in which a(R$\^$+/) is assumed to be known and a rate n$\^$-1/ is achieved, is extended to a(R$\^$+/) unknown case.