• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.373-391
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• 2022

The distribution of observations in most econometric studies with spatial heterogeneity is skewed. Usually, a single transformation of the data is used to approximate normality and to model the transformed data with a normal assumption. This assumption is however not always appropriate due to the fact that panel data often exhibit non-normal characteristics. In this work, the normality assumption is relaxed in spatial mixed models, allowing for spatial heterogeneity. An inference procedure based on Bayesian mixed modeling is carried out with a multivariate skew-elliptical distribution, which includes the skew-t, skew-normal, student-t, and normal distributions as special cases. The methodology is illustrated through a simulation study and according to the empirical literature, we fit our models to non-life insurance consumption observed between 1998 and 2002 across a spatial panel of 103 Italian provinces in order to determine its determinants. Analyzing the posterior distribution of some parameters and comparing various model comparison criteria indicate the proposed model to be superior to conventional ones.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.483-496
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• 2008

This paper proposes a class of perturbed symmetric distributions associated with the bivariate elliptically symmetric(or simply bivariate elliptical) distributions. The class is obtained from the nontruncated marginals of the truncated bivariate elliptical distributions. This family of distributions strictly includes some univariate symmetric distributions, but with extra parameters to regulate the perturbation of the symmetry. The moment generating function of a random variable with the distribution is obtained and some properties of the distribution are also studied. These developments are followed by practical examples.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.101-115
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 Chen, Dey와 Shao(1999), Branco와 Dey(2001)가 제안한 왜도가 있는 두터운 꼬리를 가지는 오차 분포와 디리슈레 과정 사전분포를 이용한 베이지안 메타분석 (meta-analysis)을 하고자 한다. 베이지안 메타분석을 위하여 가중함수를 고려한 계층적 선택 모형을 이용한다. 이때의 오차항은 왜도가 있는 비정규 분포로 가정한다. 이를 위하여 우선 왜도 타원형 분포의 일반적인 족을 소개한다 이 분포족중 왜도 정규분포와 왜도 t 분포를 오차항 분포로 이용한 베이지안 계층적 선택 모형을 고려하며, 이 때 발생하는 복잡한 베이지안 계산은 MCMC 방법으로 해결한다. 마지막으로, 실제 자료(Johnson, 1993)인 두 가지의 충치예방약의 효과에 대한 차이를 비교하기 위해 얻어진 12개의 연구 자료를 이용하여 본 연구에서 제시된 베이지안 방법을 이용하여 메타분석을 한다.