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Estimation of Random Coefficient AR(1) Model for Panel Data

  • Son, Young-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.529-544
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    • 1996
  • This paper deals with the problem of estimating the autoregressive random coefficient of a first-order random coefficient autoregressive time series model applied to panel data of time series. The autoregressive random coefficients across individual units are assumed to be a random sample from a truncated normal distribution with the space (-1, 1) for stationarity. The estimates of random coefficients are obtained by an empirical Bayes procedure using the estimates of model parameters. Also, a Monte Carlo study is conducted to support the estimation procedure proposed in this paper. Finally, we apply our results to the economic panel data in Liu and Tiao(1980).

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Estimations of Parameters in Multi-component Series Systems Using Masked Data

  • Sarhan Ammar M.;Abouammoh A.M.;Al-Ameri Mansour
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.41-53
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    • 2006
  • The exact cause of the system's failure is often unknown in the masked system lifetime data. In such type of data, there are two observable quantities, namely (i) the systems time to failure and (ii) the set of systems components that contains the component, which might cause the system to fail. Our objective in this paper is to use the maximum likelihood procedure in the presence of masked data to make inference for the reliability of the system's components. We assume a multi-component series system where each component has a constant failure rate. Different cases that permit for closed form solutions of point estimates are considered. The results obtained in this paper generalize other published results.

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An Evaluation of the Accuracy of Maximum Likelihood Procedure for Estimating HIV Infectivity

  • Um, Yonghwan;Haber, Michael-J
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.957-966
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    • 1999
  • We evaluate the accuacy and precision of maximum likelihood estimation procedures for infectivity of HIV in partner studies. This is achieved by applying the oricedyre typothetical samples generated by computer. One hundred samples were generated with various combinations of parameters. The estimation procedure was found to be quite accurate. in addition it was found that the power of the test for equality of infectivities for two types of contact depends on sample size and length of observation period but not on the number of observations made on each subject. Tests based on a model for the infectivity had higher power than standard methods for comparing proportions.

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SAMPLE ENTROPY IN ESTIMATING THE BOX-COX TRANSFORMATION

  • Rahman, Mezbahur;Pearson, Larry M.
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.103-125
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    • 2001
  • The Box-Cox transformation is a well known family of power transformation that brings a set of data into agreement with the normality assumption of the residuals and hence the response variable of a postulated model in regression analysis. This paper proposes a new method for estimating the Box-Cox transformation using maximization of the Sample Entropy statistic which forces the data to get closer to normal as much as possible. A comparative study of the proposed procedure with the maximum likelihood procedure, the procedure via artificial regression estimation, and the recently introduced maximization of the Shapiro-Francia W' statistic procedure is given. In addition, we generate a table for the optimal spacings parameter in computing the Sample Entropy statistic.

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Nonlinear Regression with Censored Data

  • Shin, D.W.;Bai, D.S.
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.46-56
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    • 1983
  • An algorithm based on EM procedure which finds maximum likelihood estimators in a nonlinear regression with censored data is proposed, and asymptotic properties of the estimator are investigated in detail. Some numerical examples are also given.

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Sparse Matrix Computation in Mixed Effects Model (희소행렬 계산과 혼합모형의 추론)

  • Son, Won;Park, Yong-Tae;Kim, Yu Kyeong;Lim, Johan
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.281-288
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we study an approximate procedure to evaluate a penalized maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for a mixed effects model. The procedure approximates the Hessian matrix of the penalized MLE with a structured sparse matrix or an arrowhead type matrix to speed its computation. In this paper, we numerically investigate the gain in computation time as well as approximation error from the considered approximation procedure.

Some Computational Contribution on the Estimation Procedure of a First Order Moving Average

  • Kim, Dai-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 1973
  • In the first-order moving average model, we present the exact likelihood equations as function of variance, correlation and parameters of coefficients in the orthogonally transformed model. Existence of maximum likelihood estimates for these unknowns are studied and a computational method is provided. (Because of the limited space Ive do not present the computer program which is written in FORTRAN.) 40 sets of generated data and economic data are used to demonstrate, and few of them are presented in the Appendix. A numerical comparison of MLE with the efficient estimate proposed by Durbin is presented in the particular case.

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Estimation of the Exponential Distributions based on Multiply Progressive Type II Censored Sample

  • Lee, Kyeong-Jun;Park, Chan-Keun;Cho, Young-Seuk
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.697-704
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    • 2012
  • The maximum likelihood(ML) estimation of the scale parameters of an exponential distribution based on progressive Type II censored samples is given. The sample is multiply censored (some middle observations being censored); however, the ML method does not admit explicit solutions. In this paper, we propose multiply progressive Type II censoring. This paper presents the statistical inference on the scale parameter for the exponential distribution when samples are multiply progressive Type II censoring. The scale parameter is estimated by approximate ML methods that use two different Taylor series expansion types ($AMLE_I$, $AMLE_{II}$). We also obtain the maximum likelihood estimator(MLE) of the scale parameter under the proposed multiply progressive Type II censored samples. We compare the estimators in the sense of the mean square error(MSE). The simulation procedure is repeated 10,000 times for the sample size n = 20 and 40 and various censored schemes. The $AMLE_{II}$ is better than MLE and $AMLE_I$ in the sense of the MSE.

Parameter Estimation From Singly Censored Normal Sample (관측중단된 정규표본으로부터의 모수추정에 관한 연구)

  • Gwon, Yeong-Il
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.61-68
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    • 1987
  • This paper considers the estimation of the parameters of a normal population from which a sample which has been censored at a known point is obtained. Simple estimators are presented which are given in closed forms. It is shown that maximum likelihood estimators are obtained by using the estimation procedure iteratively. Some computer simulation results are given.

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A Study on the Accuracy of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of the Generalized Logistic Distribution According to Information Matrix (Information Matrix에 따른 Generalized Logistic 분포의 최우도 추정량 정확도에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Hong-Joon;Jung, Young-Hun;Heo, Jun-Haeng
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.331-341
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    • 2009
  • In this study, we compared the observed information matrix with the Fisher information matrix to estimate the uncertainty of maximum likelihood estimators of the generalized logistic (GL) distribution. The previous literatures recommended the use of the observed information matrix because this is convenient since this matrix is determined as the part of the parameter estimation procedure and there is little difference in accuracy between the observed information matrix and the Fisher information matrix for large sample size. The observed information matrix has been applied for the generalized logistic distribution based on the previous study without verification. For this purpose, a simulation experiment was performed to verify which matrix gave the better accuracy for the GL model. The simulation results showed that the variance-covariance of the ML parameters for the GL distribution came up with similar results to those of previous literature, but it is preferable to use of the Fisher information matrix to estimate the uncertainty of quantile of ML estimators.