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A Study on Kernel Type Discontinuity Point Estimations

  • Huh, Jib
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.929-937
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    • 2003
  • Kernel type estimations of discontinuity point at an unknown location in regression function or its derivatives have been developed. It is known that the discontinuity point estimator based on $Gasser-M\ddot{u}ller$ regression estimator with a one-sided kernel function which has a zero value at the point 0 makes a poor asymptotic behavior. Further, the asymptotic variance of $Gasser-M\ddot{u}ller$ regression estimator in the random design case is 1.5 times larger that the one in the corresponding fixed design case, while those two are identical for the local polynomial regression estimator. Although $Gasser-M\ddot{u}ller$ regression estimator with a one-sided kernel function which has a non-zero value at the point 0 for the modification is used, computer simulation show that this phenomenon is also appeared in the discontinuity point estimation.

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A Change-point Estimator with Unsymmetric Fourier Series

  • Kim, Jaehee
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.533-543
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    • 2002
  • In this paper we propose a change-point estimator with left and right regressions using the sample Fourier coefficients on the orthonormal bases. The window size is different according to the data in the left side and in the right side at each point. The asymptotic properties of the proposed change-point estimator are established. The limiting distribution and the consistency of the estimator are derived.

A High Breakdown and Efficient GM-Estimator in Linear Models

  • Song, Moon-Sup;Park, Changsoon;Nam, Ho-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.471-487
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    • 1996
  • In this paper we propose an efficient scoring type one-step GM-estimator, which has a bounded influence function and a high break-down point. The main point of the estimator is in the weighting scheme of the GM-estimator. The weight function we used depends on both leverage points and residuals So we construct an estimator which does not downweight good leverage points Unider some regularity conditions, we compute the finite-sample breakdown point and prove asymptotic normality Some simulation results are also presented.

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An Efficient Mallows-Type One-Step GM-Estimator in linear Models

  • Song, Moon-Sup;Park, Changsoon;Nam, Ho-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.369-383
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    • 1998
  • This paper deals with a robust regression estimator. We propose an efficient one-step GM-estimator, which has a bounded influence function and a high breakdown point. The main idea of this paper is to use the Mallows-type weights which depend on both the predictor variables and the residuals from a high breakdown initial estimator. The proposed weighting scheme severely downweights the bad leverage points and slightly downweights the good leverage points. Under some regularity conditions, we compute the finite-sample breakdown point and prove the asymptotic normality. Some simulation results and a numerical example are also presented.

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CHANGE-POINT ESTIMATION WITH SAMPLE FOURIER COEFFICIENTS

  • Kim, Jae-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.109-114
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    • 2002
  • In this paper we propose a change-point estimator with left and right regressions using the sample Fourier coefficients on the orthonormal bases. The asymptotic properties of the proposed change-point estimator are established. The limiting distribution and the consistency of the estimator are derived.

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ROBUST MEASURES OF LOCATION IN WATER-QUALITY DATA

  • Kim, Kyung-Sub;Kim, Bom-Chul;Kim, Jin-Hong
    • Water Engineering Research
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.195-202
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    • 2002
  • The mean is generally used as a point estimator in water-quality data. Unfortunately, the nonnormal and skewed distributions of data hinder the direct application of the mean, which is inappropriate statistics in this case. The use of robust statistics such as L, M, and R-estimators are recommended and become more efficient. The median (L-estimator), the biweight (M-estimator), and the Hodges-Lehmann method (R-estimator) are briefly introduced and applied in this paper. From the actual data analyses, it is known that the median does not guarantee robustness for a small number of data sets, and robust measures of location or the arithmetic mean without outliers are highly recommended if the distribution has tails or outliers. Care must be taken to measure the location because water quality level within a water body can change depending on the selected point estimator.

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A Robust Estimator in Multivariate Regression Using Least Quartile Difference

  • Jung Kang-Mo
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2005
  • We propose an equivariant and robust estimator in multivariate regression model based on the least quartile difference (LQD) estimator in univariate regression. We call this estimator as the multivariate least quartile difference (MLQD) estimator. The MLQD estimator considers correlations among response variables and it can be shown that the proposed estimator has the appropriate equivariance properties defined in multivariate regressions. The MLQD estimator has high breakdown point as does the univariate LQD estimator. We develop an algorithm for MLQD estimate. Simulations are performed to compare the efficiencies of MLQD estimate with coordinatewise LQD estimate and the multivariate least trimmed squares estimate.

An Equivariant and Robust Estimator in Multivariate Regression Based on Least Trimmed Squares

  • Jung, Kang-Mo
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.1037-1046
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    • 2003
  • We propose an equivariant and robust estimator in multivariate regression model based on the least trimmed squares (LTS) estimator in univariate regression. We call this estimator as multivariate least trimmed squares (MLTS) estimator. The MLTS estimator considers correlations among response variables and it can be shown that the proposed estimator has the appropriate equivariance properties defined in multivariate regression. The MLTS estimator has high breakdown point as does LTS estimator in univariate case. We develop an algorithm for MLTS estimate. Simulation are performed to compare the efficiencies of MLTS estimate with coordinatewise LTS estimate and a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of MLTS estimate in multivariate regression.

Change-point Estimation with Loess of Means

  • Kim, Jae-Hee
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.349-357
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    • 2005
  • We suggest a functional technique with loess smoothing for estimating the change-point when there is one change-point in the mean model. The proposed change-point estimator is consistent. Simulation study shows a good performance of the proposed change-point estimator in comparison with other parametric or nonparametric change-point estimators.

Effect of Bias on the Pearson Chi-squared Test for Two Population Homogeneity Test

  • Heo, Sunyeong
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.241-245
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    • 2012
  • Categorical data collected based on complex sample design is not proper for the standard Pearson multinomial-based chi-squared test because the observations are not independent and identically distributed. This study investigates effects of bias of point estimator of population proportion and its variance estimator to the standard Pearson chi-squared test statistics when the sample is collected based on complex sampling scheme. This study examines the effect under two population homogeneity test. The standard Pearson test statistic can be partitioned into two parts; the first part is the weighted sum of ${\chi}^2_1$ with eigenvalues of design matrix as their weights, and the additional second part which is added due to the biases of the point estimator and its variance estimator. Our empirical analysis shows that even though the bias of point estimator is small, Pearson test statistic is very much inflated due to underestimate the variance of point estimator. In the connection of design-based variance estimator and its design matrix, the bigger the average of eigenvalues of design matrix is, the larger relative size of which the first component part to Pearson test statistic is taking.