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Shrinkage Estimator of Dispersion of an Inverse Gaussian Distribution

  • Lee, In-Suk;Park, Young-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.805-809
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    • 2006
  • In this paper a shrinkage estimator for the measure of dispersion of the inverse Gaussian distribution with known mean is proposed. Also we compare the relative bias and relative efficiency of the proposed estimator with respect to minimum variance unbiased estimator.

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A modified Zienkiewicz-Zhu error estimator

  • Stephen, D.B.;Steven, G.P.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 1996
  • A new error measure for a static finite element analysis is proposed. This error measure is a modification to the Zienkiewicz and Zhu energy norm. The new error estimator is a global error measure for the analysis and is independent of finite element model size and internal stresses, hence it is readily transportable to other error calculations. It is shown in this paper the the new error estimator also produces conservative error measurements, making it a suitable procedure to adopt in commerical packages.

A STUDY ON RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF KERNEL TYPE ESTIMATORS OF SMOOTH DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS

  • Jee, Eun-Sook
    • The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 1994
  • Let P be a probability measure on the real line with Lebesque-density f. The usual estimator of the distribution function (≡df) of P for the sample $\chi$$_1$,…, $\chi$$\_$n/ is the empirical df: F$\_$n/(t)=(equation omitted). But this estimator does not take into account the smoothness of F, that is, the existence of a density f. Therefore, one should expect that an estimator which is better adapted to this situation beats the empirical df with respect to a reasonable measure of performance.(omitted)

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Small Sample Study of Kernel Hazard Ratio Estimator

  • Choi, Myong-Hui
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.59-74
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    • 1994
  • The hazard ratio may be useful as a descriptive measure to compare the hazard experience of a treatment group with that of a control group. In this paper, we propose a kernel estimator of hazard ratio with censored survival data. The uniform consistency and asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator are proved by using counting process approach. In order to assess the performance of the proposed estimator, we compare the kernel estimator with Cox estimator and the generalized rank estimators of hazard ratio in terms of MSE by Monte Carlo simulation.

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Gain-scheduling of Acceleration Estimator for Low-velocity Measurement with Encoders

  • Son, Seung-Woo;Lee, Sang-Hun;Hur, Jong-Sung
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1853-1857
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    • 2005
  • In most of motor-driven motion control systems, an encoder is used to measure a position of the motor and the velocity information is obtained by measuring the position increment over a sampling period. The quantization effect due to limited resolution of the encoder induces some measurement errors, and consequently causes deterioration of the motion performance especially in low velocity. In this paper, we propose a gain-scheduled acceleration estimator which works in wider velocity range than the original acceleration estimator. We investigate and analyze characteristics of the velocity measurement mechanism which takes into account the quantization effect of the encoder. Next, we introduce the acceleration estimator and propose a gain-scheduled acceleration estimator. The bandwidth of the gain-scheduled acceleration estimator is automatically adjusted by the velocity command. Finally, its performance is evaluated by simulation and experiment, and the results are compared with those of a conventional method and the original acceleration estimator.

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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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Minimum Disparity Estimation for Normal Models: Small Sample Efficiency

  • Cho M. J.;Hong C. S.;Jeong D. B.
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.12 no.1
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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.

On Information Theoretic Index for Measuring the Stochastic Dependence Among Sets of Variates

  • Kim, Hea-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.131-146
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    • 1997
  • In this paper the problem of measuring the stochastic dependence among sets fo random variates is considered, and attention is specifically directed to forming a single well-defined measure of the dependence among sets of normal variates. A new information theoretic measure of the dependence called dependence index (DI) is introduced and its several properties are studied. The development of DI is based on the generalization and normalization of the mutual information introduced by Kullback(1968). For data analysis, minimum cross entropy estimator of DI is suggested, and its asymptotic distribution is obtained for testing the existence of the dependence. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate the performance of the estimator, and show that is is useful not only for evaluation of the dependence, but also for independent model testing.

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A Kernel Estimator of Hazard Ratio (위험비(危險比)의 커널추정량(推定量))

  • Choi, Myong-Hui;Lee, In-Suk;Song, Jae-Kee
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.79-90
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    • 1992
  • We consider hazard ratio as a descriptive measure to compare the hazard experience of a treatment group with that of a control group with censored survival data. In this paper, we propose a kernel estimator of hazard ratio. The uniform consistency and asymptotic normality of a kernel estimator are proved by using counting process approach via martingale theory and stochastic integrals.

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Estimation of Overflow Probabilities in Parallel Networks with Coupled Inputs

  • Lee, Jiyeon;Kweon, Min Hee
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.257-269
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    • 2001
  • The simulation is used to estimate an overflow probability in a stable parallel network with coupled inputs. Since the general simulation needs extremely many trials to obtain such a small probability, the fast simulation is proposed to reduce trials instead. By using the Cramer’s theorem, we first obtain an optimally changed measure under which the variance of the estimator is minimized. Then, we use it to derive an importance sampling estimator of the overflow probability which enables us to perform the fast simulation.

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