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Likelihood Ratio Criterion for Testing Sphericity from a Multivariate Normal Sample with 2-step Monotone Missing Data Pattern

  • Choi, Byung-Jin
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.473-481
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    • 2005
  • The testing problem for sphericity structure of the covariance matrix in a multivariate normal distribution is introduced when there is a sample with 2-step monotone missing data pattern. The maximum likelihood method is described to estimate the parameters on the basis of the sample. Using these estimates, the likelihood ratio criterion for testing sphericity is derived.

ON TESTING THE EQUALITY OF THE COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATION IN TWO INVERSE GAUSSIAN POPULATIONS

  • Choi, Byung-Jin;Kim, Kee-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.93-101
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    • 2003
  • This paper deals with testing the equality of the coefficients of variation in two inverse Gaussian populations. The likelihood ratio, Lagrange-multiplier and Wald tests are presented. Monte-Carlo simulations are performed to compare the powers of these tests. In a simulation study, the likelihood ratio test appears to be consistently more powerful than the Lagrange-multiplier and Wald tests when sample size is small. The powers of all the tests tend to be similar when sample size increases.

Likelihood Ratio Test for the Equality of Two Order Restricted Normal Mean Vectors

  • Jeon Hyojin;Choi Sungsub
    • Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.159-164
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    • 2000
  • In the study of the isotonic regression problem, several procedures for testing the homogeneity of a normal mean vector versus order restricted alternatives have been proposed since Barlow's trial(1972). In this paper, we consider the problem of testing the equality of two order restricted normal mean vectors based on the likelihood ratio principle.

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Likelihood based inference for the ratio of parameters in two Maxwell distributions (두 개의 맥스웰분포의 모수비에 대한 우도함수 추론)

  • Kang, Sang-Gil;Lee, Jeong-Hee;Lee, Woo-Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.89-98
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, the ratio of parameters in two independent Maxwell distributions is parameter of interest. We proposed test statistics, which converge to standard normal distribution, based on likelihood function. The exact distribution for testing the ratio is hard to obtain. We proposed the signed log-likelihood ratio statistic and the modified signed log-likelihood ratio statistic for testing the ratio. Through simulation, we show that the modified signed log-likelihood ratio statistic converges faster than signed log-likelihood ratio statistic to standard normal distribution. We compare two statistics in terms of type I error and power. We give an example using real data.

Tests For and Against a Positive Dependence Restriction in Two-Way Ordered Contingency Tables

  • Oh, Myongsik
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.205-220
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    • 1998
  • Dependence concepts for ordered two-way contingency tables have been of considerable interest. We consider a dependence concept which is less restrictive than likelihood ratio dependence and more restrictive than regression dependence. Maximum likelihood estimation of cell probability under this dependence restriction is studied. The likelihood ratio statistics for and against this dependence are proposed and their large sample distributions are derived. A real data is analyzed to illustrate the estimation and testing procedures.

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On Testing Equality of Matrix Intraclass Covariance Matrices of $K$Multivariate Normal Populations

  • Kim, Hea-Jung
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 2000
  • We propose a criterion for testing homogeneity of matrix intraclass covariance matrices of K multivariate normal populations, It is based on a variable transformation intended to propose and develop a likelihood ratio criterion that makes use of properties of eigen structures of the matrix intraclass covariance matrices. The criterion then leads to a simple test that uses an asymptotic distribution obtained from Box's (1949) theorem for the general asymptotic expansion of random variables.

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The Bahadur Efficiency of the Power-Divergence Statistics Conditional on Margins for Testing homogeneity with Equal Sample Size

  • Kang, Seung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.453-465
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    • 1997
  • The family of power-divergence statistics conditional on margins is considered for testing homogeneity of .tau. multinomial populations with equal sample size and the exact Bahadur slope is obtained. It is shown that the likelihood ratio test conditional on margins is the most Bahadur efficient among the family of power-divergence statistics.

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Testing Homogeneity of Diagonal Covariance Matrices of K Multivariate Normal Populations

  • Kim, Hea-Jung
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.929-938
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    • 1999
  • We propose a criterion for testing homogeneity of diagonal covariance matrices of K multivariate normal populations. It is based on a factorization of usual likelihood ratio intended to propose and develop a criterion that makes use of properties of structures of the diagonal convariance matrices. The criterion then leads to a simple test as well as to an accurate asymptotic distribution of the test statistic via general result by Box (1949).

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Test and Estimation for Exponential Mean Change

  • Kim, Jae-Hee
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.421-427
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    • 2008
  • This paper deals with the problem of testing for the existence of change in mean and estimating the change-point when the data are from the exponential distributions. The likelihood ratio test statistic and Gombay and Horvath (1990) test statistic are compared in a power study when there exists one change-point in the exponential means. Also the change-point estimator using the likelihood ratio and the change-point estimators based on Gombay and Horvath (1990) statistic are compared for their detecting capability via simulation.

Tests of Hypotheses in Multiple Samples based on Penalized Disparities

  • Park, Chanseok;Ayanendranath Basu;Ian R. Harris
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.347-366
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    • 2001
  • Robust analogues of the likelihood ratio test are considered for testing of hypotheses involving multiple discrete distributions. The test statistics are generalizations of the Hellinger deviance test of Simpson(1989) and disparity tests of Lindsay(1994), obtained by looking at a 'penalized' version of the distances; harris and Basu (1994) suggest that the penalty be based on reweighting the empty cells. The results show that often the tests based on the ordinary and penalized distances enjoy better robustness properties than the likelihood ratio test. Also, the tests based on the penalized distances are improvements over those based on the ordinary distances in that they are much closer to the likelihood ratio tests at the null and their convergence to the x$^2$ distribution appears to be dramatically faster; extensive simulation results show that the improvement in performance of the tests due to the penalty is often substantial in small samples.

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