• Title/Summary/Keyword: Estimating functions

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Monte Carlo Estimation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities

  • Oh, Man-Suk;Kim, Seung-Whan
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.443-455
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    • 1999
  • A simulation-based approach to estimating the probability of an arbitrary region under a multivariate normal distribution is developed. In specific, the probability is expressed as the ratio of the unrestricted and the restricted multivariate normal density functions, where the restriction is given by the region whose probability is of interest. The density function of the restricted distribution is then estimated by using a sample generated from the Gibbs sampling algorithm.

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Kernel Poisson regression for mixed input variables

  • Shim, Jooyong
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.1231-1239
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    • 2012
  • An estimating procedure is introduced for kernel Poisson regression when the input variables consist of numerical and categorical variables, which is based on the penalized negative log-likelihood and the component-wise product of two different types of kernel functions. The proposed procedure provides the estimates of the mean function of the response variables, where the canonical parameter is linearly and/or nonlinearly related to the input variables. Experimental results are then presented which indicate the performance of the proposed kernel Poisson regression.

Bayesian Estimation for the Reliability of a Multicomponent Stress-Strength System Using Noninformative Priors (비정보 사전분포를 이용한 다중 부품 부하-강도체계의 신뢰도에 대한 베이지안 추정)

  • 김병휘;장인홍
    • Proceedings of the Korean Reliability Society Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.411-411
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    • 2000
  • Consider the problem of estimating the reliability of a multicomponent stress-strength system which functions if at least r of the k identical components simultaneously function. All stresses and strengths are assumed to be independent random variables with two parameter Weibull distributions. First, we derive reference priors and probability matching priors which are noninformative priors. We next investigate sufficient conditions for propriety of posteriors under reference priors and probability matching priors. Finally, we provide, using these priors, some numerical results for Bayes estimates of the reliability by applying Gibbs sampling technique.

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Design Criterion for Estimating Mean and Variance Functions

  • Lim, Yong B.
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2000
  • In an industrial process, the proper objective is to find the optimal operating conditions with minimum process variability around the target. Vining and Myers(1990) suggest to use the separate model for the mean response and the process varian linear predictor ${\tau}_i={\log}\;{\sigma}^2_i$ is unknown and should be estimated. Noting that the variance of $\hat{{\tau}_i}$ is heterogeneous, another appropriate D-optimality criterion $D_3$ based on the method of generalized least squares is proposed in this paper.

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Admissible Estimation for Parameters in a Family of Non-regular Densities

  • Byung Hwee Kim;In Hong Chang
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.52-62
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    • 1995
  • Consider an estimation problem under squared error loss in a family of non-regular densities with both terminals of the support being decreasing functions of an unknown parameter. Using Karlin's(1958) technique, sufficient conditions are given for generalized Bayes estimators to be admissible for estimating an arbitrarily positive, monotone parametric function and then treat some examples which illustrate our results.

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Empirical Choice of the Shape Parameter for Robust Support Vector Machines

  • Pak, Ro-Jin
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.543-549
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    • 2008
  • Inspired by using a robust loss function in the support vector machine regression to control training error and the idea of robust template matching with M-estimator, Chen (2004) applies M-estimator techniques to gaussian radial basis functions and form a new class of robust kernels for the support vector machines. We are specially interested in the shape of the Huber's M-estimator in this context and propose a way to find the shape parameter of the Huber's M-estimating function. For simplicity, only the two-class classification problem is considered.

EFFICIENT ESTIMATION IN SEMIPARAMETRIC RANDOM EFFECT PANEL DATA MODELS WITH AR(p) ERRORS

  • Lee, Young-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.523-542
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    • 2007
  • In this paper we consider semiparametric random effect panel models that contain AR(p) disturbances. We derive the efficient score function and the information bound for estimating the slope parameters. We make minimal assumptions on the distribution of the random errors, effects, and the regressors, and provide semiparametric efficient estimates of the slope parameters. The present paper extends the previous work of Park et al.(2003) where AR(1) errors were considered.

Estimating reliability in discrete distributions

  • Moon, Yeung-Gil;Lee, Chang-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.811-817
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    • 2011
  • We shall introduce a general probability mass function which includes several discrete probability mass functions. Especially, when the random variable X is Poisson, binomial, and negative binomial random variables as some special cases of the introduced distribution, the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) and the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator (UMVUE) of the probability P(X ${\leq}$ t) are considered. And the efficiencies of the MLE and the UMVUE of the reliability ar compared each other.

Robust Cross Validation Score

  • Park, Dong-Ryeon
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.413-423
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    • 2005
  • Consider the problem of estimating the underlying regression function from a set of noisy data which is contaminated by a long tailed error distribution. There exist several robust smoothing techniques and these are turned out to be very useful to reduce the influence of outlying observations. However, no matter what kind of robust smoother we use, we should choose the smoothing parameter and relatively less attention has been made for the robust bandwidth selection method. In this paper, we adopt the idea of robust location parameter estimation technique and propose the robust cross validation score functions.