• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.895-903
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• 2009

The penalized partial likelihood based on restricted maximum likelihood method has been widely used for the inference of frailty models. However, the standard-error estimate for frailty parameter estimator can be downwardly biased. In this paper we show that such underestimation can be corrected by using hierarchical likelihood. In particular, the hierarchical likelihood gives a statistically efficient procedure for various random-effect models including frailty models. The proposed method is illustrated via a numerical example and simulation study. The simulation results demonstrate that the corrected standard-error estimate largely improves such bias.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.1007-1012
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• 2003

A recursive procedure for finding the Cholesky root of the inverse of sample covariance matrix, leading to a direct solution for the inverse of a positive definite matrix, is developed using the likelihood equation for the maximum likelihood estimation of the Cholesky root under normality assumptions. An example of the Hilbert matrix is considered for an illustration of the procedure.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2005

The Bayes estimators of the parameters included in the complementary Weibull reliability model are obtained. In the process of deriving Bayes estimators, the scale and shape parameters of the complementary Weibull distribution are considered to be independent random variables having prior exponential distributions. The maximum likelihood estimators of the desired parameters are derived. Further, the least square estimators are obtained in closed forms. Simulation study is made using Monte Carlo method to make a comparison among the obtained estimators. The comparison is made by computing the root mean squared errors associated to each point estimation. Based on the numerical study, the Bayes procedure seems better than the maximum likelihood and least square procedures in the sense of having smaller root mean squared errors.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.971-978
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• 2009

Poisson generalized linear mixed models(GLMMs) have been widely used for the analysis of clustered or correlated count data. For the inference marginal likelihood, which is obtained by integrating out random effects is often used. It gives maximum likelihood(ML) estimator, but the integration is usually intractable. In this paper, we propose how to obtain the ML estimator via Laplace approximation based on hierarchical-likelihood (h-likelihood) approach under the Poisson GLMMs. In particular, the h-likelihood avoids the integration itself and gives a statistically efficient procedure for various random-effect models including GLMMs. The proposed method is illustrated using two practical examples and simulation studies.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.1035-1039
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• 2000

This study developed a Poisson generalized linear mixed model and a procedure to estimate genetic parameters for count traits. The method derived from a frequentist perspective was based on hierarchical likelihood, and the maximum adjusted profile hierarchical likelihood was employed to estimate dispersion parameters of genetic random effects. Current approach is a generalization of Henderson's method to non-normal data, and was applied to simulated data. Underestimation was observed in the genetic variance component estimates for the data simulated with large heritability by using the Poisson generalized linear mixed model and the corresponding maximum adjusted profile hierarchical likelihood. However, the current method fitted the data generated with small heritability better than those generated with large heritability.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1055-1066
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• 2009

Many articles have considered a hybrid censoring scheme, which is a mixture of Type-I and Type-II censoring schemes. We introduce a double hybrid censoring scheme and derive some approximate maximum likelihood estimators(AMLEs) of the scale parameter for the half logistic distribution under the proposed double hybrid censored samples. The scale parameter is estimated by approximate maximum likelihood estimation method using two different Taylor series expansion types. We also obtain the maximum likelihood estimator(MLE) and the least square estimator(LSE) of the scale parameter under the proposed double hybrid censored samples. We compare the proposed estimators in the sense of the mean squared error. The simulation procedure is repeated 10,000 times for the sample size n = 20(10)40 and various censored samples. The performances of the AMLEs and MLE are very similar in all aspects but the MLE and LSE have not a closed-form expression, some numerical method must be employed.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.191-201
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 연최대치 독립 호우사상의 결정에 사용되는 Freund 이변량 지수분포의 매개변수 추정과정을 구체적으로 검토하였다. 먼저, 모멘트법을 이용하는 경우를 구체적으로 검토하고, 그 결과를 최우도법을 적용한 결과와 비교하였다. 두 방법을 1961~2010년 서울지점의 시강우 자료에 적용하여 연최대치 독립 호우사상을 선정하고, 그 결과를 비교 검토하였다. 이러한 과정을 통해 얻은 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 매개변수 추정방법으로 모멘트법을 적용하는 경우에는 두변량의 평균과 분산뿐만 아니라 상관계수도 고려해 주어야 하는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 최우도법은 두변량의 평균에 대한 재현성이 우수하고, 모멘트법은 분산의 경년변동을 잘 나타내는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 모멘트법과 최우도법을 통해 선정한 연최대치 독립 호우사상들은 대체로 유사한 것으로 나타났다. 다르게 선정된 호우사상은 최우도법의 경우에는 총 강우량이 큰 것, 모멘트법의 경우에는 강우강도가 큰 것으로 나타났다.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2003

This paper represents the first comprehensive comparison of the Newton-Raphson's method and Simple Iterative Procedure (SIP) in the maximum likelihood estimation of the two-parameter Weibull distribution. Computer simulation is employed to compare these two methods for multiply censored, singly censored data (Type I or Type Ⅱ censoring) and complete data. Results indicate the Newton-Raphson's with the Menon's estimated value, as an initial point remains the effective iterative procedure for estimating the parameters.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제37권1_2호
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• pp.105-121
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• 2019

One of the main objective of manufacturing industries is to assess the capability performance of different processes. In this paper, we use the lifetime performance index $C_L$ as a criterion to measure larger-the-better type quality characteristic for evaluating the product performance. The lifetimes of products are assumed to follow a general class of inverted exponentiated distributions. We use maximum likelihood estimator to estimate the lifetime performance index under the assumption that data are progressive type I interval censored. We also obtain asymptotic distribution of this estimator. Based on this estimator, a new hypothesis testing procedure is developed with respect to a given lower specification limit. Finally, two numerical examples are discussed in support of the proposed testing procedure.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.825-832
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• 2012

We propose a novel way of forecasting the market shares of several brands simultaneously in a multiplicative competitive interaction model, which uses kernel regression technique incorporated with kernel machine technique applied in support vector machines and other machine learning techniques. Traditionally, the estimations of the market share attraction model are performed via a maximum likelihood estimation procedure under the assumption that the data are drawn from a normal distribution. The proposed method is shown to be a good candidate for forecasting method of the market share attraction model when normal distribution is not assumed. We apply the proposed method to forecast the market shares of 4 Korean car brands simultaneously and represent better performances than maximum likelihood estimation procedure.