• Title/Summary/Keyword: Nonparametric Estimation

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A Nonparametric Procedure for Bioassay by using Conditional Quantile Processes

  • Kim, Ho
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 1996
  • Bioequivanence models arise typically in bioassays when new preparations are compared against standard ones by means of responses on some biological organisms. Relative potency measures provide nice interpretations for such bioequivalence and their estimation constitutes the prime interest of such studies. A conditional quantile process based on the k-nearest neighbor method is proposed for this purpose. An alternative procedure based on Kolmogrov-Smirnov type estimator has also been considered along with. ARIC ultrasound data are analyzed as examples.

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An Adaptive Test for Ordered Interqartile Ranges among Several Distributions

  • Park, Chul-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.63-76
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    • 2001
  • An adaptive estimation and testing method is proposed for comparing dispersions among several ordered groups. Based upon the large sampling theory for nonparametric quartile estimators, we derive the order restricted estimators and construct a simple test statistic. This test statistic has a mixture of several chi-square distributions as its asymptotic null distribution. The proposed test is illustratively applied to survival time data for the patients with carcinoma of the oropharynx.

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A Study on Goodness-of-fit Test for Density with Unknown Parameters

  • Hang, Changkon;Lee, Minyoung
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.483-497
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    • 2001
  • When one fits a parametric density function to a data set, it is usually advisable to test the goodness of the postulated model. In this paper we study the nonparametric tests for testing the null hypothesis against general alternatives, when the null hypothesis specifies the density function up to unknown parameters. We modify the test statistic which was proposed by the first author and his colleagues. Asymptotic distribution of the modified statistic is derived and its performance is compared with some other tests through simulation.

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Nonparametric Estimation of the Bivariate Survival Function under Koziol-Green Model I

  • Ahn, Choon-Mo;Park, Sang-Gue
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.975-982
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    • 2003
  • In this paper we considered the problem of estimating the bivariate survival distribution of the random vector (X, Y) when Y may be subject to random censoring but X is always uncensored. Adapting conditional Koziol-Green model, simplified estimator for bivariate survival function is proposed. We perform simulation to compare the proposed estimator with popular estimators and discussed the performance of it.

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Locating the Change Point of Mean Residual Life of Certain Life Distributions

  • Li, Xiaohu
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 2002
  • A class of life distributions, whose mean residual life keeps stable at its earlier phase and then starts to decrease in time, is proposed to model the life of an element haying survived its burn-in. A strongly consistent estimator and a nonparametric testing procedure are developed to locate the occurrence of the change-point of the mean residual life. Finally, some numerical simulations are employed to be an illustration as well.

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The Family Approach to Nonparametric Estimation of the Regression Function (비모수적 회귀함수 추정에 대한 Family Approach)

  • 정성석
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.106-114
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    • 1997
  • The smoothing parameter or bandwidth is crucial to performance of the kernel based regression estimator. So the choice of a "optimal" smoothing parameter produce a single curve estimate. If a single estimate is replaced by a family of estimates, it become easy that we understand what varies with choice of the smoothing parameter. This paper suggests the threshold of the maximum bandwidth and the number of the family members in the regression context.n context.

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Mixed Effects Kernel Binomial Regression

  • Hwang, Chang-Ha
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.1327-1334
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    • 2008
  • Mixed effect binomial regression models are widely used for analysis of correlated count data in which the response is the result of a series of one of two possible disjoint outcomes. In this paper, we consider kernel extensions with nonparametric fixed effects and parametric random effects. The estimation is through the penalized likelihood method based on kernel trick, and our focus is on the efficient computation and the effective hyperparameter selection. For the selection of hyperparameters, cross-validation techniques are employed. Examples illustrating usage and features of the proposed method are provided.

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On the Selection of Bezier Points in Bezier Curve Smoothing

  • Kim, Choongrak;Park, Jin-Hee
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.1049-1058
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    • 2012
  • Nonparametric methods are often used as an alternative to parametric methods to estimate density function and regression function. In this paper we consider improved methods to select the Bezier points in Bezier curve smoothing that is shown to have the same asymptotic properties as the kernel methods. We show that the proposed methods are better than the existing methods through numerical studies.

A Support Vector Method for the Deconvolution Problem

  • Lee, Sung-Ho
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.451-457
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    • 2010
  • This paper considers the problem of nonparametric deconvolution density estimation when sample observa-tions are contaminated by double exponentially distributed errors. Three different deconvolution density estima-tors are introduced: a weighted kernel density estimator, a kernel density estimator based on the support vector regression method in a RKHS, and a classical kernel density estimator. The performance of these deconvolution density estimators is compared by means of a simulation study.

The Region of Positivity and Unimodality in the Truncated Series of a Nonparametric Kernel Density Estimator

  • Gupta, A.K.;Im, B.K.K.
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.10
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    • pp.140-144
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    • 1981
  • This paper approximates to a kernel density estimate by a truncated series of expansion involving Hermite polynomials, since this could ease the computing burden involved in the kernel-based density estimation. However, this truncated series may give a multimodal estimate when we are estiamting unimodal density. In this paper we will show a way to insure the truncated series to be positive and unimodal so that the approximation to a kernel density estimator would be maeningful.

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