• 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 Statistical Society
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.117-130
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• 1997

We study the asymptotic behavior of the maximum partial likelihood estimator in the Cox proportional hazards model in the presence of nuisance parameters when the entry of patients is staggered. When entry of patients is simultaneous and there is only one regression parameter in the Cox model, the efficient score process of the partial likelihood is martingale and converges weakly to a time-chnaged Brownian motion. Our problem is to get a similar result in the presence of nuisance parameters when entry of patient is staggered.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.919-925
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• 2006

Maximum likelihood estimate(MLE) is obtained from the partial log-likelihood function for the cell probabilities of two way incomplete contingency tables proposed by Chen and Fienberg(1974). The partial log-likelihood function is modified by adding lagrangian multiplier that constraints can be incorporated with. Variances of MLE estimators of population proportions are derived from the matrix of second derivatives of the loglikelihood with respect to cell probabilities. Simulation results, when data are missing at random, reveal that Complete-case(CC) analysis produces biased estimates of joint probabilities under MAR and less efficient than either MLE or MI. MLE and MI provides consistent results under either the MAR situation. MLE provides more efficient estimates of population proportions than either multiple imputation(MI) based on data augmentation or complete case analysis. The standard errors of MLE from the proposed method using lagrangian multiplier are valid and have less variation than the standard errors from MI and CC.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.401-410
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• 2004

We address the problem of parameter estimation in multivariate distributions under ignorable non-monotone missing data. The factoring likelihood method for monotone missing data, termed by Rubin (1974), is extended to a more general case of non-monotone missing data. The proposed method is algebraically equivalent to the Newton-Raphson method for the observed likelihood, but avoids the burden of computing the first and the second partial derivatives of the observed likelihood. Instead, the maximum likelihood estimates and their information matrices for each partition of the data set are computed separately and combined naturally using the generalized least squares method.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.613-618
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• 2011

The proposed method is based on a penalized log partial likelihood of Cox proportional hazard model with L1-penalty. We use the iteratively reweighted least squares procedure to solve L1 penalized log partial likelihood function of Cox proportional hazard model. It provide the ecient computation including variable selection and leads to the generalized cross validation function for the model selection. Experimental results are then presented to indicate the performance of the proposed procedure.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.251-260
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• 2006

The proportional hazards model (PHM) can be associated with a non- homogeneous Markov chain (NHMC) in the sense that sample alignments in the PHM correspond to trajectories of the NHMC. As a result the partial likelihood widely used for the PHM is a probabilistic function of the trajectories of the NHMC. In this paper, we show that, as the total number of subjects involved increases, the trajectories of the NHMC, i.e. sample alignments in the PHM, converges to the solution of an ordinary differential equation which, subsequently, characterizes the almost sure limit of the partial likelihood.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.519-527
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• 2004

Relationship between the partial likelihood ratio statistics for logisitic models and the partial goodness-of-fit statistics for corresponding log-linear models is discussed. This paper shows how definitions of suppression in logistic model can be adapted for log-linear model and how they are related to confounding in terms of collapsibility for categorical data. Several $2{times}2{times}2$ contingency tables are illustrated.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권9C호
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• pp.891-897
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• 2003

부분응답 최대유사 (PRML: partial response maximum likelihood) 검출기법은 수직 자기기록 채널에 적합한 검출기법이다. 또한, 잡음 예측 (noise prediction) 기법을 비터비 (Viterbi) 알고리즘의 branch metric 계산에 삽입함으로써 부분응답 최대유사 기법의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다. 그러나 비터비 알고리즘으로 구현된 시스템은 복잡도 측면에서 단점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위해, 런 길이 제한 (RLL: un-length limited) 부호기의 최소 런 길이 제한 매개변수 d=1을 이용하여 새로운 저 복잡도 검출기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 검출 기법은 비터비 검출기를 대신하는 슬라이서와 궤환 여파기로서의 잡음예측기로 구성되어있다. 따라서 비트오율 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 제안된 기법을 쌍(dual) 검출기법으로 확장하였다. 모의실험을 통하여 제안된 구조가 낮은 복잡 도를 가지면서, 부분응답 등화기의 목적 응답이 (1,2,1)인 잡음예측 최대 유사 검출기법(NPML: noise-predictive maximum likelihood) 과 유사한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.161-173
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• 1996

When we deal with a Hilbert space-valued Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) (or Stochastic Partial Differential Equation (SPDE)), depending on some unknown parameters, the solution usually has a Fourier series expansion. In this situation we consider the maximum likelihood method for the statistical estimation problem and derive the asymptotic properties (consistency and normality) of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE).

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2013

Kiefer (1961) studied asymptotic behavior of empirical distribution using the law of the iterated logarithm. Robertson and Wright (1974a) discussed whether this type of result would hold for a maximum likelihood estimator of a stochastically ordered distribution function; however, we show that this cannot be achieved. We provide only a partial answer to this problem. The result is applicable to both estimation and testing problems under the restriction of stochastic ordering.