• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.989-995
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• 2009

Basu et al. (1998) proposed the minimum divergence estimating method which is free from using the painful kernel density estimator. Their proposed class of density power divergences is indexed by a single parameter $\alpha$ which controls the trade-off between robustness and efficiency. In this article, (1) we introduce a new large class the minimum squared distance which includes from the minimum Hellinger distance to the minimum $L_2$ distance. We also show that under certain conditions both the minimum density power divergence estimator(MDPDE) and the minimum squared distance estimator(MSDE) are asymptotically equivalent and (2) in finite samples the MDPDE performs better than the MSDE in general but there are some cases where the MSDE performs better than the MDPDE when estimating a location parameter or a proportion of mixed distributions.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.311-319
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• 2013

Cooray and Ananda (2005) proposed a composite lognormal-Pareto model to analyze loss payment data in the actuarial and insurance industries. Their model is based on a lognormal density up to an unknown threshold value and a two-parameter Pareto density. In this paper, we implement the minimum density power divergence estimation for the composite lognormal-Pareto density. We compare the performances of the minimum density power divergence estimator (MDPDE) and the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) by simulations and an example. The minimum density power divergence estimator performs reasonably well against various violations in the distribution. The minimum density power divergence estimator better fits small observations and better resists against extraordinary large observations than the maximum likelihood estimator.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.453-465
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• 2001

It is often the case that one wants to estimate parameters of the distribution which follows certain parametric model, while the dta are contaminated. it is well known that the maximum likelihood estimators are not robust to contamination. Basuet al.(1998) proposed a robust method called the minimum density power divergence estimation. In this paper, we investigate data-driven selection of the tuning parameter $\alpha$ in the minimum density power divergence estimation. A criterion is proposed and its performance is studied through the simulation. The simulation includes three cases of estimation problem.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.397-406
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• 2014

최소밀도함수승간격 추정법은 Baus 등 (1998)에 의해 처음 소개된 이후 많은 관심의 대상이 되었다. 최소밀도함수승간격 추정량은 우수한 로버스트 성질을 갖고 효율성도 최우추정량에 필적한 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 생물정보학에서 사용되는 노말-지수 분포에 근거한 추정량을 최소밀도함수승간격 추정법을 사용하여 구하는 방법을 다루고자 한다. 그런데 그 과정에서 간격을 적분을 통해 구하는 것이 매우 어려움으로 인해 직접적인 적분 대신 라플라스 근사를 시도할 것을 제안한다. 그 결과 추정량이 다소 효율성이 줄어들지만 로버스트 성질을 갖고 있음을 수학적 방법과 모의실험을 통하여 보였다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.267-280
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• 2007

In this paper, we consider the robust estimation for diffusion processes when the sample is observed discretely. As a robust estimator, we consider the minimizing density power divergence estimator (MDPDE) proposed by Basu et al. (1998). It is shown that the MDPDE for diffusion process is weakly consistent. A simulation study demonstrates the robustness of the MDPDE.

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

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.687-696
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• 2003

This article presents a new family of the estimating functions related with minimum distance estimations, and discusses its relationship to the family of the minimum density power divergence estimating equations. Two representative minimum distance estimations; the minimum $L_2$ distance estimation and the minimum Hellinger distance estimation are studied in the light of the theory of estimating equations. Despite of the desirable properties of minimum distance estimations, they are not widely used by general researchers, because theories related with them are complex and are hard to be computationally implemented in real problems. Hopefully, this article would be a help for understanding the minimum distance estimations better.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.531-550
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• 2023

The estimation of extreme quantiles is one of the main objectives of statistics of extremes (which deals with the estimation of rare events). In this paper, a robust estimator of extreme quantile of a heavy-tailed distribution is considered. The estimator is obtained through the minimum density power divergence criterion on an exponential regression model. The proposed estimator was compared with two estimators of extreme quantiles in the literature in a simulation study. The results show that the proposed estimator is stable to the choice of the number of top order statistics and show lesser bias and mean square error compared to the existing extreme quantile estimators. Practical application of the proposed estimator is illustrated with data from the pedochemical and insurance industries.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.1565-1572
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• 2015

In this paper, we analyze the polio incidence data based on the Poisson autoregressive models, focusing particularly on change-point detection. Since the data include some strongly deviating observations, we employ the robust cumulative sum (CUSUM) test proposed by Kang and Song (2015) to perform the test for parameter change. Contrary to the result of Kang and Lee (2014), our data analysis indicates that there is no significant change in the case of the CUSUM test with strong robustness and the same result is obtained after ridding the polio data of outliers. We additionally consider the comparison of the forecasting performance. All the results demonstrate that the robust CUSUM test performs adequately in the presence of seemingly outliers.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2018년도 학술발표회
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• pp.319-319
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• 2018

최근 전 세계적으로 극한수문사상의 증가로 인한 피해의 규모와 빈도가 잦아지고 있다. 기후변화에 관한 정부 간 협의체(IPCC)5차 보고서에 따르면 우리나라는 모든 시나리오 하에서 평균 강수량이 증가하는 지역으로 분류되었다. 특히 강우와 태풍피해가 잦은 7월에서 9월의 강우량이 급격히 증가하는 것으로 나타나며 이는 현재보다 극한수문사상이 더욱 빈번하게 일어날 것이라 예상할 수 있다. 하지만 기존의 매개변수 추정방법은 이상치 산정기준을 넘어서는 극치를 제외하고 확률강우량을 산정하고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이러한 기존의 매개변수 추정방법 보다 극한값에 강건한 MDPDE(minimum density power divergence estimator)를 이용한 매개변수 추정을 사용하여 우리나라 60개 강우관측소의 과거 강우관측자료에 대한 최적조율모수에 대한 빈도별 확률강우량을 추정하여 기존의 방법으로 산정한 확률강우량과 비교하였다. 이상치로 분류할 수 있는 극한수문사상이 발생한 우리나라 31개소에 대하여 MDPDE의 적용성을 검토한 결과 기존의 매개변수 추정방법에 비해 이상치를 포함한 100년 빈도 확률강우량이 약13.3% 감소하는 것으로 나타났다.