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Asymptotic Approximation of Kernel-Type Estimators with Its Application

  • 장유선;김성래;김성균
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics Conference
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    • 2003.09a
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    • pp.12.1-12
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    • 2003
  • Sufficient conditions are given under which a generalized class of kernel-type estimators allows asymptotic approximation On the modulus of continuity This generalized class includes sample distribution function, kernel-type estimator of density function, and an estimator that may apply to the censored case. In addition, an application is given to asymptotic normality of recursive density estimators of density function at an unknown point.

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Evaluation of the Efficiency of an Inverse Exponential Kernel Estimator for Spherical Data

  • Park, Hyun Suk
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 2013
  • This paper deals with the relative efficiency of two kernel estimators $\hat{f}_n$ and $\hat{g}_n$ by using spherical data, as proposed by Park (2012), and Bai et al. (1988), respectively. For this, we suggest the computing flows for the relative efficiency on the 2-dimensional unit sphere. An evaluation procedure between two estimators (given the same kernels) is also illustrated through the observed data on normals to the orbital planes of long-period comets.

Bezier curve smoothing of cumulative hazard function estimators

  • Cha, Yongseb;Kim, Choongrak
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.189-201
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    • 2016
  • In survival analysis, the Nelson-Aalen estimator and Peterson estimator are often used to estimate a cumulative hazard function in randomly right censored data. In this paper, we suggested the smoothing version of the cumulative hazard function estimators using a Bezier curve. We compare them with the existing estimators including a kernel smooth version of the Nelson-Aalen estimator and the Peterson estimator in the sense of mean integrated square error to show through numerical studies that the proposed estimators are better than existing ones. Further, we applied our method to the Cox regression where covariates are used as predictors and suggested a survival function estimation at a given covariate.

On Practical Efficiency of Locally Parametric Nonparametric Density Estimation Based on Local Likelihood Function

  • Kang, Kee-Hoon;Han, Jung-Hoon
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.607-617
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    • 2003
  • This paper offers a practical comparison of efficiency between local likelihood approach and conventional kernel approach in density estimation. The local likelihood estimation procedure maximizes a kernel smoothed log-likelihood function with respect to a polynomial approximation of the log likelihood function. We use two types of data driven bandwidths for each method and compare the mean integrated squares for several densities. Numerical results reveal that local log-linear approach with simple plug-in bandwidth shows better performance comparing to the standard kernel approach in heavy tailed distribution. For normal mixture density cases, standard kernel estimator with the bandwidth in Sheather and Jones(1991) dominates the others in moderately large sample size.

Choice of the Kernel Function in Smoothing Moment Restrictions for Dependent Processes

  • Lee, Jin
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.137-141
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    • 2009
  • We study on selecting the kernel weighting function in smoothing moment conditions for dependent processes. For hypothesis testing in Generalized Method of Moments or Generalized Empirical Likelihood context, we find that smoothing moment conditions by Bartlett kernel delivers smallest size distortions based on empirical Edgeworth expansions of the long-run variance estimator.

The Bandwidth from the Density Power Divergence

  • Pak, Ro Jin
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.435-444
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    • 2014
  • The most widely used optimal bandwidth is known to minimize the mean integrated squared error(MISE) of a kernel density estimator from a true density. In this article proposes, we propose a bandwidth which asymptotically minimizes the mean integrated density power divergence(MIDPD) between a true density and a corresponding kernel density estimator. An approximated form of the mean integrated density power divergence is derived and a bandwidth is obtained as a product of minimization based on the approximated form. The resulting bandwidth resembles the optimal bandwidth by Parzen (1962), but it reflects the nature of a model density more than the existing optimal bandwidths. We have one more choice of an optimal bandwidth with a firm theoretical background; in addition, an empirical study we show that the bandwidth from the mean integrated density power divergence can produce a density estimator fitting a sample better than the bandwidth from the mean integrated squared error.

BERRY-ESSEEN BOUNDS OF RECURSIVE KERNEL ESTIMATOR OF DENSITY UNDER STRONG MIXING ASSUMPTIONS

  • Liu, Yu-Xiao;Niu, Si-Li
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.54 no.1
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    • pp.343-358
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    • 2017
  • Let {$X_i$} be a sequence of stationary ${\alpha}-mixing$ random variables with probability density function f(x). The recursive kernel estimators of f(x) are defined by $$\hat{f}_n(x)={\frac{1}{n\sqrt{b_n}}{\sum_{j=1}^{n}}b_j{^{-\frac{1}{2}}K(\frac{x-X_j}{b_j})\;and\;{\tilde{f}}_n(x)={\frac{1}{n}}{\sum_{j=1}^{n}}{\frac{1}{b_j}}K(\frac{x-X_j}{b_j})$$, where 0 < $b_n{\rightarrow}0$ is bandwith and K is some kernel function. Under appropriate conditions, we establish the Berry-Esseen bounds for these estimators of f(x), which show the convergence rates of asymptotic normality of the estimators.

On Copas′ Local Likelihood Density Estimator

  • Kim, W.C.;Park, B.U.;Kim, Y.G.
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.77-87
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    • 2001
  • Some asymptotic results on the local likelihood density estimator of Copas(1995) are derived when the locally parametric model has several parameters. It turns out that it has the same asymptotic mean squared error as that of Hjort and Jones(1996).

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