• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.15-27
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• 2018

Parametric method of flood frequency analysis involves fitting of a probability distribution to observed flood data. When record length at a given site is relatively shorter and hard to apply the asymptotic theory, an alternative distribution to the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution is often used. In this study, we consider the beta-P distribution (BPD) as an alternative to the GEV and other well-known distributions for modeling extreme events of small or moderate samples as well as highly skewed or heavy tailed data. The L-moments ratio diagram shows that special cases of the BPD include the generalized logistic, three-parameter log-normal, and GEV distributions. To estimate the parameters in the distribution, the method of moments, L-moments, and maximum likelihood estimation methods are considered. A Monte-Carlo study is then conducted to compare these three estimation methods. Our result suggests that the L-moments estimator works better than the other estimators for this model of small or moderate samples. Two applications to the annual maximum stream flow of Colorado and the rainfall data from cloud seeding experiments in Southern Florida are reported to show the usefulness of the BPD for modeling hydrologic events. In these examples, BPD turns out to work better than $beta-{\kappa}$, Gumbel, and GEV distributions.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.149-167
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• 2005

The minimum disparity estimators introduced by Lindsay and Basu (1994) are studied empirically. An extensive simulation in this paper provides a location estimate of the small sample and supplies empirical evidence of the estimator performance for the univariate contaminated normal model. Empirical results show that the minimum generalized negative exponential disparity estimator (MGNEDE) obtains high efficiency for small sample sizes and dominates the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) and the minimum blended weight Hellinger distance estimator (MBWHDE) with respect to efficiency at the contaminated model.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.239-259
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• 2019

The transmuted generalized extreme value (TGEV) distribution was first introduced by Aryal and Tsokos (Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, 71, 401-407, 2009) and applied by Nascimento et al. (Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 45, 1847-1864, 2016). However, they did not give explicit expressions for all the moments, tail behaviour, quantiles, survival and risk functions and order statistics. The TGEV distribution is a more flexible model than the simple GEV distribution to model extreme or rare events because the right tail of the TGEV is heavier than the GEV. In addition the TGEV distribution can adjusted various forms of asymmetry. In this article, explicit expressions for these measures of the TGEV are obtained. The tail behavior and the survival and risk functions were determined for positive gamma, the moments for nonzero gamma and the moment generating function for zero gamma. The performance of the maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) of the TGEV parameters were tested through a series of Monte Carlo simulation experiments. In addition, the model was used to fit three real data sets related to financial returns.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.1121-1131
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• 2015

의학이나 사회과학에서 이진 데이터 분석 시 랜덤 절편(random intercept)을 갖는 로지스틱 모형이 유용하게 쓰이고 있다. 지금까지는 이러한 로지스틱 모형에서 랜덤 절편이 정규분포와 같은 모수 모형(parametric model)을 따른다는 가정과 설명변수와 랜덤 절편이 독립이라는 가정 하에 실행된 데이터 분석이 전반적이었다. 그러나 이러한 두 가지 가정은 다소 무리가 있다. 이 연구에서는 설명 변수와 랜덤 절편의 독립성을 가정하지 않고, 비모수 랜덤 절편을 따르는 로지스틱 모형의 방법론을 기존에 널리 쓰인 방법과 비교하여 설명하도록 한다. 케냐의 초등학생들의 영양 섭취 및 질병의 발병을 조사한 데이터에 이 방법을 적용하였다.