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Nonparametric test for unknown age class of life distributions

  • Abu-Youssef, S.E.;Mohammed, B.I.;Bakr, M.E.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.99-110
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    • 2014
  • Based on the kernel function, a new test is presented, testing $H_0:\bar{F}$ is exponential against $H_1:\bar{F}$ is UBACT and not exponential is given in section 2. Monte Carlos null distribution critical points for sample sizes n = 5(5)100 is investigated in section 3. The Pitman asymptotic efficiency for common alternatives is obtained in section 4. In section 5 we propose a test statistic for censored data. Finally, a numerical examples in medical science for complete and censored data using real data is presented in section 6.

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Testing Whether a Survival Distribution is Better Mean Residual Life at Age $t_0$

  • Alwasel Ibrahim A.;El-Bassiouny Ahmed H.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2006
  • The better mean residual life at $t_0\;(BMRL-t_0)$ class of life distribution is introduced by Kulasekara and Park (1987). They proved that the $BMRL-t_0$ class contains the DMRL class, but it is a proper subclass of the NBUE class. In this paper we develop a new family of tests for testing exponentiality against the $BMRL-t_0\;(WMRL-t_0)$ alternatives based on the goodness of fit approach. It is shown that the suggested test is better than the one introduced by Kulasekara and Park (1987) in the sense of Pitman asymptotic efficiency values.

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Partially Parametric Estimation of Lifetime Distribution from a Record of Failures and Follow-Ups

  • Yoon, Byoung Chang
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.59-78
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    • 1994
  • In some observational studies, we have often random censoring model. However, the data available may be partially observable censored data consisting of the observed failure times and only those nonfailure times which are subject to follow up. In this paper, we present an extension of the problem of partially parametric estimation of the survival function to such partially observable censored data. The proposed estimator treats the observed failure times nonparametrically and uses a parametric model only for those nonfailure times which are subject to follow-up. We discuss the motivation and construction of the proposed estimator and investigate the limiting properties of the proposed estimator such as asymptotic normality. Also, when the assumed parametric model is exponential, the asymptotic variance of the estimator is obtained. Furthermore, an example is given to compare the proposed estimator with the modified Kaplan Meier(MKM) estimator. From the results, it is shown that the relative efficiency of the proposed estimator is higher than that of the MKM estimator in the follow-up study with increasing time.

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Interval Estimation of the Difference of two Population Proportions using Pooled Estimator

  • Hong, Chong-Sun
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.389-399
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    • 2002
  • In order to examine whether the difference between two point estimates of population proportions is statistically significant, data analysts use two techniques. The first is to explore the overlap between two associated confidence intervals. Second method is to test the significance which is introduced at most statistical textbooks under the common assumptions of consistency, asymptotic normality, and asymptotic independence of the estimates. Under the null hypothesis which is two population proportions are equal, the pooled estimator of population proportion is preferred as a point estimator since two independent random samples are considered to be collected from one population. Hence as an alternative method, we could obtain another confidence interval of the difference of the population proportions with using the pooled estimate. We conclude that, among three methods, the overlapped method is under-estimated, and the difference of the population proportions method is over-estimated on the basis of the proposed method.

A Robust Wald-Ttype Test in Linear Regression

  • Nam, Ho-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.507-520
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    • 1997
  • In this paper we propose a robust Wald-type test which is based on an efficient Mallows-type one-step GM-estimator. The proposed estimator based on the weight function of Song, Park and Nam (1996) has a bounded influence function and a high breakdown point. Under some regularity conditions, we compute the finite-sample breakdown point, and drive asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator. The level and power breakdown points, influence function and asymptotic distribution of the proposed test statistic are main points of this paper. To compare the performance of the proposed test with other tests, we perform some Monte Carlo simulations.

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Better Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Process Incapability Index $C_{pp}$

  • Cho, Joong-Jae;Han, Jeong-Hye;Lee, In-Pyo
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.341-357
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    • 1999
  • Greenwich and Jahr-Schaffrath(1995) considered a new process incapability index(PII) $C_{pp}$, which modified the useful index $C^{\ast}_{pm}{$ for detecting assignable causes. The new index $C_{pp}$ provides an uncontaminated separation between information concerning the process accuracy and precision while this kind of information separation is not available with the $C^{\ast}_{pm}$ index. In this paper, we will study about the index $C_{pp}$ based on the bootstrap. First, we will prove the consistency of bootstrap deriving the bootstrap asymptotic distribution for our index $C_{pp}$. Moreover, with the consistency of bootstrap, we will construct six bootstrap confidence intervals and compare their performances. Some simulation results, comparison and analysis are provided. In particular, two STUD and ABC bootstrap methods perform significantly better.

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Testing Harmonic Used Better than Aged in Expectation in Upper Tail(HUBAEUT) Class of Life Distributions Using Kernel Method

  • Abu-Youssef, S.E.;Al-nachawati, H.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.89-99
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    • 2006
  • A new classes of life distribution, namely harmonic used better than aged in expectation in upper tail (HUBAEUT) is introduced. Testing exponentiality against this class is investigated using kernel method. The limiting null and nonnull distribution of the test statistics is normal and the null variance is calculated exactly. Selected critical values are tabulated for sample sizes of 5(1)40. Power of the test are estimated by simulation. the efficacies of the test statistics used for testing against HUBAEUT are calculated for som common alternatives and are compared to some other procedures. It is shown that proposed test is simple, has high relative efficiency and power for some commonly used alternatives. The set of real data are used as an examples to elucidate the use of the proposed test statistics for practical reliability.

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Moment inequalities of $NBU_{mgf}$ with testing hypotheses application

  • Mahmoud, M.A.W.;Gadallah, A.M.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.57-69
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    • 2012
  • Our goal in this paper is to establish inequalities for the moments of new better than used in the moment generating function class ($NBU_{mgf}$). Using these inequalities we propose a new test for exponentiality versus $NBU_{mgf}$ class. Pitman's asymptotic relative efficiency, power and critical values of this test are calculated to assess the performance of the test. We proposed also a new test for exponentiality versus $NBU_{mgf}$ in the right censored data. Sets of real data are used as an example to elucidate the use of the proposed test for practical problems.

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ON THE EXISTENCE OF THE TWEEDIE POWER PARAMETER IMPLICIT ESTIMATOR

  • Ghribi, Abdelaziz;Hassin, Aymen;Masmoudi, Afif
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.59 no.4
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    • pp.979-991
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    • 2022
  • A special class of exponential dispersion models is the class of Tweedie distributions. This class is very significant in statistical modeling as it includes a number of familiar distributions such as Gaussian, Gamma and compound Poisson. A Tweedie distribution has a power parameter p, a mean m and a dispersion parameter 𝜙. The value of the power parameter lies in identifying the corresponding distribution of the Tweedie family. The basic objective of this research work resides in investigating the existence of the implicit estimator of the power parameter of the Tweedie distribution. A necessary and sufficient condition on the mean parameter m, suggesting that the implicit estimator of the power parameter p exists, was established and we provided some asymptotic properties of this estimator.

A Note on Adaptive Estimation for Nonlinear Time Series Models

  • Kim, Sahmyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.387-406
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    • 2001
  • Adaptive estimators for a class of nonlinear time series models has been proposed by several authors. Koul and Schick(1997) proposed the adaptive estimators without sample splitting for location-type time series models. They also showed by simulation that the adaptive estimators without sample splitting have smaller mean squared errors than those of the adaptive estimators with sample splitting. the present paper generalized the result in a case of location-scale type nonlinear time series models by simulation.

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