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A Study on a Basis for the Selection of a Design for Quadratic Model Fits Fearing a Cubic Bias in Multilple Response Case

  • Bae, Wha-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.31-44
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    • 1995
  • In fitting a model, there always exists a discrepancy between the fitted model and the true functional relationship. In measuring this discrepancy, Box and Drapper (1959) used the criterion dividing the discrepancy into two parts which are the bias error part and the variance error one in single response case. In this paper, an optimum design which makes these two types of errors as small as possible is found by extending the Box and Drapper criterion to multiple response situation. Especially, a design is found to meat rotatability conditions when we fit a quadratic model to each response fearing cubic bias. Using the central composite design, an application of general results to a specific case is shown to help understanding the material.

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Selection of Data-adaptive Polynomial Order in Local Polynomial Nonparametric Regression

  • Jo, Jae-Keun
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.177-183
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    • 1997
  • A data-adaptive order selection procedure is proposed for local polynomial nonparametric regression. For each given polynomial order, bias and variance are estimated and the adaptive polynomial order that has the smallest estimated mean squared error is selected locally at each location point. To estimate mean squared error, empirical bias estimate of Ruppert (1995) and local polynomial variance estimate of Ruppert, Wand, Wand, Holst and Hossjer (1995) are used. Since the proposed method does not require fitting polynomial model of order higher than the model order, it is simpler than the order selection method proposed by Fan and Gijbels (1995b).

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Design-based Properties of Least Square Estimators in Panel Regression Model (패널회귀모형에서 회귀계수 추정량의 설계기반 성질)

  • Kim, Kyu-Seong
    • Survey Research
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.49-62
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    • 2011
  • In this paper we investigate design-based properties of both the ordinary least square estimator and the weighted least square estimator for regression coefficients in panel regression model. We derive formulas of approximate bias, variance and mean square error for the ordinary least square estimator and approximate variance for the weighted least square estimator after linearization of least square estimators. Also we compare their magnitudes each other numerically through a simulation study. We consider a three years data of Korean Welfare Panel Study as a finite population and take household income as a dependent variable and choose 7 exploratory variables related household as independent variables in panel regression model. Then we calculate approximate bias, variance, mean square error for the ordinary least square estimator and approximate variance for the weighted least square estimator based on several sample sizes from 50 to 1,000 by 50. Through the simulation study we found some tendencies as follows. First, the mean square error of the ordinary least square estimator is getting larger than the variance of the weighted least square estimator as sample sizes increase. Next, the magnitude of mean square error of the ordinary least square estimator is depending on the magnitude of the bias of the estimator, which is large when the bias is large. Finally, with regard to approximate variance, variances of the ordinary least square estimator are smaller than those of the weighted least square estimator in many cases in the simulation.

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THE VARIANCE ESTIMATORS FOR CALIBRATION ESTIMATOR IN UNIT NONRESPONSE

  • Son, Chang-Kyoon;Jung, Hun-Jo
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.869-877
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    • 2002
  • In the presence of unit nonresponse we perform the calibration estimation procedure for the population total corresponding to the levels of auxiliary information and derive the Taylor and the Jackknife variance estimators of it. We study the nonresponse bias reduction and the variance stabilization, and then show the efficiency of the Taylor and the Jackknife variance estimators by simulation study.

Effect of Bias for Snapshots Using Minimum Variance Processor in MFP (최소분산 프로세서를 사용한 정합장 처리에서 신호단편 수에 따른 바이어스의 영향)

  • 박재은;신기철;김재수
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.94-100
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    • 2001
  • When using a sample covariance matrix data in paucity of snapshots, adaptive matched field processing will have problem in inverting covariance matrix due to the rank deficiency. The general solutions are diagonal loading and eigenanalysis methods, but there is a significant bias in the power output. This paper presents a quantitative study of bias of power output and the performance of source localization through the simulation and the measured data analysis in fixed source case using the diagonal loading method for the minimum variance processor. Results show that the bias in power output is reduced and the performance of source localization is improved when the number of snapshots is greater than the number of array sensors.

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Approximate MLE for the Scale Parameter of the Weibull Distribution with Type-II Censoring

  • Kang, Suk-Bok;Kim, Mi-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 1994
  • It is known that the maximum likelihood method does not provide explicit estimator for the scale parameter of the Weibull distribution based on Type-II censored samples. In this paper we provide an approximate maximum likelihood estimator (AMLE) of the scale parameter of the Weibull distribution with Type-II censoring. We obtain the asymptotic variance and simulate the values of the bias and the variance of this estimator based on 3000 Monte Carlo runs for n = 10(10)30 and r,s = 0(1)4. We also simulate the absolute biases of the MLE and the proposed AMLE for complete samples. It is found that the absolute bias of the AMLE is smaller than the absolute bias of the MLE.

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Statistical Bias and Inflated Variance in the Genehunter Nonparametric Linkage Test Statistic

  • Song, Hae-Hiang;Choi, Eun-Kyeong
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.373-381
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    • 2009
  • Evidence of linkage is expressed as a decreasing trend of the squared trait difference of two siblings with increasing identical by descent scores. In contrast to successes in the application of a parametric approach of Haseman-Elston regression, notably low powers are demonstrated in the nonparametric linkage analysis methods for complex traits and diseases with sib-pairs data. We report that the Genehunter nonparametric linkage statistic is biased and furthermore the variance formula that they used is an inflated one, and this is one reason for a low performance. Thus, we propose bias-corrected nonparametric linkage statistics. Simulation studies comparing our proposed nonparametric test statistics versus the existing test statistics suggest that the bias-corrected new nonparametric test statistics are more powerful and attains efficiencies close to that of Haseman-Elston regression.

On the Negative Estimates of Direct and Maternal Genetic Correlation - A Review

  • Lee, C.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.15 no.8
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    • pp.1222-1226
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    • 2002
  • Estimates of genetic correlation between direct and maternal effects for weaning weight of beef cattle are often negative in field data. The biological existence of this genetic antagonism has been the point at issue. Some researchers perceived such negative estimate to be an artifact from poor modeling. Recent studies on sources affecting the genetic correlation estimates are reviewed in this article. They focus on heterogeneity of the correlation by sex, selection bias caused from selective reporting, selection bias caused from splitting data by sex, sire by year interaction variance, and sire misidentification and inbreeding depression as factors contributing sire by year interaction variance. A biological justification of the genetic antagonism is also discussed. It is proposed to include the direct-maternal genetic covariance in the analytical models.

On a Transformation Technique for Nonparametric Regression

  • Kim, Woochul;Park, Byeong U.
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.217-233
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    • 1996
  • This paper gives a rigorous proof of an asymptotic result about bias and variance for a transformation-based nonparametric regression estimator proposed by Park et al (1995).

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Shrinkage Estimator of Dispersion of an Inverse Gaussian Distribution

  • Lee, In-Suk;Park, Young-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.805-809
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    • 2006
  • In this paper a shrinkage estimator for the measure of dispersion of the inverse Gaussian distribution with known mean is proposed. Also we compare the relative bias and relative efficiency of the proposed estimator with respect to minimum variance unbiased estimator.

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