• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.347-366
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• 2001

Robust analogues of the likelihood ratio test are considered for testing of hypotheses involving multiple discrete distributions. The test statistics are generalizations of the Hellinger deviance test of Simpson(1989) and disparity tests of Lindsay(1994), obtained by looking at a 'penalized' version of the distances; harris and Basu (1994) suggest that the penalty be based on reweighting the empty cells. The results show that often the tests based on the ordinary and penalized distances enjoy better robustness properties than the likelihood ratio test. Also, the tests based on the penalized distances are improvements over those based on the ordinary distances in that they are much closer to the likelihood ratio tests at the null and their convergence to the x$^2$ distribution appears to be dramatically faster; extensive simulation results show that the improvement in performance of the tests due to the penalty is often substantial in small samples.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.129-142
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• 2017

In this paper we consider the problem of the model selection/discrimination among three different positively skewed lifetime distributions. Lindley, Weibull, and gamma distributions have been used to effectively analyze positively skewed lifetime data. This paper assesses how much closer the Lindley distribution gets to Weibull and gamma distributions. We consider three techniques that involve the likelihood ratio test, asymptotic likelihood ratio test, and minimum Kolmogorov distance as optimality criteria to diagnose the appropriate fitting model among the three distributions for a given data set. Monte Carlo simulation study is performed for computing the probability of correct selection based on the considered optimality criteria among these families of distributions for various choices of sample sizes and shape parameters. It is observed that overall, the Lindley distribution is closer to Weibull distribution in the sense of likelihood ratio and Kolmogorov criteria. A real data set is presented and analyzed for illustrative purposes.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.93-101
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• 2003

This paper deals with testing the equality of the coefficients of variation in two inverse Gaussian populations. The likelihood ratio, Lagrange-multiplier and Wald tests are presented. Monte-Carlo simulations are performed to compare the powers of these tests. In a simulation study, the likelihood ratio test appears to be consistently more powerful than the Lagrange-multiplier and Wald tests when sample size is small. The powers of all the tests tend to be similar when sample size increases.

• 한국데이터정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국데이터정보과학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.51-73
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• 2002

Empirical likelihood ratio method is a new technique in nonparametric inference developed by A. Owen (1988, 2001). Sometimes empirical likelihood has difficulties to define itself. As such a case in point, we discuss the way to define a modified empirical likelihood for the location of symmetry using well-known points of symmetry as a side conditions. The side condition of symmetry is defined through a finite subset of the infinite set of constraints. The modified empirical likelihood under symmetry studied in this paper is to construct a constrained parameter space $\theta+$ of distributions imposing known symmetry as side information. We show that the usual asymptotic theory (Wilks theorem) still hold for the empirical likelihood ratio on the constrained parameter space and the asymptotic distribution of the empirical NPMLE of difference of two symmetric points is obtained.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.307-314
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• 2021

We showed that any missing mechanism is reproduced by EMAR or MNAR with equal fit for observed likelihood if there are non-negative solutions of maximum likelihood equations. This is a generalization of Molenberghs et al. (2008) and Jeon et al. (2019). Nonetheless, as MCAR becomes a nested model of MNAR, a natural question is whether or not MNAR and MCAR are testable by using the well-known three statistics, LR (Likelihood ratio), Wald, and Score test statistics. Through simulation studies, we compared these three statistics. We investigated to what extent the boundary solution affect tesing MCAR against MNAR, which is the only testable pair of missing mechanisms based on observed likelihood. We showed that all three statistics are useful as long as the boundary proximity is far from 1.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2005

The testing problem for sphericity structure of the covariance matrix in a multivariate normal distribution is introduced when there is a sample with 2-step monotone missing data pattern. The maximum likelihood method is described to estimate the parameters on the basis of the sample. Using these estimates, the likelihood ratio criterion for testing sphericity is derived.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.89-98
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• 2012

이 논문에서는 두 개의 Maxwell분포의 모수들의 동질성을 모수비에 근거하여 검정하는 근사통계량을 제안한다. Maxwell분포의 모수비에 대한 추정량이 복잡하여 정확한 분포를 유도하기는 매우 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 하나의 대안으로 표준정규분포로 근사적으로 수렴하는 통계량을 고려해야 한다. 이 논문에서 제안된 통계량은 표준정규분포로 수렴하며, 표본의 수가 작은 경우에도 사용할 수 있다. 특히, 본 논문에서는 부호화 로그 우도비 통계량과 수정된 부호화 로그 우도비 통계량을 개발한다. 일반적으로, 수정된 부호화 로그 우도비 통계량은 로그 우도비 통계량에 비해 표준정규분포로 수렴하는 속도가 매우 빠르다. 부호화 로그 우도비 통계량은 작은 표본으로도 표준정규분포로 매우 빨리 수렴한다. 제안된 통계량들의 성질들을 모의실험을 통하여 알아보고, 제안된 통계량을 예제를 통하여 연구한다.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.453-465
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• 1997

The family of power-divergence statistics conditional on margins is considered for testing homogeneity of .tau. multinomial populations with equal sample size and the exact Bahadur slope is obtained. It is shown that the likelihood ratio test conditional on margins is the most Bahadur efficient among the family of power-divergence statistics.

• 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.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.38-49
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• 1987

Experimenters often want to test whether a specific treatment is really better than the others. In such a problem we derive the likelihood ratio test and compare the result with other multiple comparisons procedures. A nonparametric procedure based on ranks is also considered. Pitman efficiency of the rank-sum procedure relative to the likelihood ratio test is computed.