In this article, a new class of distributions is introduced, which generalizes the linear failure rate distribution and is obtained by compounding this distribution and power series class of distributions. This new cl...
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In this article, a new class of distributions is introduced, which generalizes the linear failure rate distribution and is obtained by compounding this distribution and power series class of distributions. This new class of distributions is called the linear failure rate-power series distributions and contains some new distributions such as linear failure rate-geometric, linear failure rate-Poisson, linear failure rate-logarithmic, linear failure rate-binomial distributions, and Rayleigh-power series class of distributions. Some former works such as exponential-power series class of distributions, exponential-geometric, exponential-Poisson, and exponential-logarithmic distributions are special cases of the new proposed model. The ability of the linear failure rate-power series class of distributions is in covering five possible hazard rate function, that is, increasing, decreasing, upside-down bathtub (unimodal), bathtub and increasing-decreasing-increasing shaped. Several properties of this class of distributions such as moments, maximum likelihood estimation procedure via an em-algorithm and inference for a large sample, are discussed in this article. In order to show the flexibility and potentiality, the fitted results of the new class of distributions and some of its submodels are compared using two real datasets.
We derive the proper form of the Akaike information criterion for variable selection for mixture cure models, which are often fit via the expectation-maximization algorithm. Separate covariate sets may be used in the ...
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We derive the proper form of the Akaike information criterion for variable selection for mixture cure models, which are often fit via the expectation-maximization algorithm. Separate covariate sets may be used in the mixture components. The selection criteria are applicable to survival models for right-censored data with multiple competing risks and allow for the presence of a non-susceptible group. The method is illustrated on credit loan data, with pre-payment and default as events and maturity as the non-susceptible case and is used in a simulation study. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A new multivariate time series model with various attractive properties is motivated and studied. By extending the CCC model in several ways, it allows for all the primary stylized facts of financial asset returns, in...
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A new multivariate time series model with various attractive properties is motivated and studied. By extending the CCC model in several ways, it allows for all the primary stylized facts of financial asset returns, including volatility clustering, non-normality (excess kurtosis and asymmetry), and also dynamics in the dependency between assets over time. A fast em-algorithm is developed for estimation. Each element of the vector return at time t is endowed with a common univariate shock, interpretable as a common market factor. This leads to the new model being a hybrid of GARCH and stochastic volatility, but without the estimation problems associated with the latter, and being applicable in the multivariate setting for potentially large numbers of assets. A feasible technique which allows for multivariate option pricing is presented, along with an empirical illustration. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper discusses the misclassification that occurs when relying solely on routine register data in family studies of disease clustering. A register study of familial aggregation of schizophrenia is used as an exam...
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This paper discusses the misclassification that occurs when relying solely on routine register data in family studies of disease clustering. A register study of familial aggregation of schizophrenia is used as an example. The familial aggregation is studied using a regression model for the disease in the child including the disease status of the parents as a risk factor. If all the information is found in the routine registers then the disease status of the parents is only known from the time when the register started and if this information is used unquestioningly the parents who have had the disease before this time are misclassified as disease-free. Two methods are presented to adjust for this misclassification: regression calibration and an em-type algorithm. These methods are used in the schizophrenia example where the large effect of having a schizophrenic mother hardly shows any signs of bias due to misclassification. The methods are also studied in simulations showing that the misclassification problem increases with the disease frequency. Copyright (C) 2002 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.
On the basis of a Type-II censored sample, Barakat et al. (Predicting future lifetimes of mixture exponential distribution, Commun Stat Simul Comput https://***/10.1080/03610918.2020.1715434, 2020) considered the prob...
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On the basis of a Type-II censored sample, Barakat et al. (Predicting future lifetimes of mixture exponential distribution, Commun Stat Simul Comput https://***/10.1080/03610918.2020.1715434, 2020) considered the problem of predicting the unobserved censored units from a mixture exponential distribution with known parameters. They then discussed how to use the pivotal quantity for obtaining prediction intervals for non-random and random sample size when all parameters are known. In this work, we consider the same problem of prediction where the model parameters involving the scale parameters as well as the mixing proportion parameter are all unknown. Further, we propose different prediction methods for obtaining prediction intervals of future lifetimes including likelihood, highest conditional median, and parametric bootstrap methods. In this set-up, two cases are considered. In the first case, we assume that the sample size is non-random, while in the second case, the sample size is assumed to be random number. It is shown from our numerical results that the parametric bootstrap-based prediction intervals are comparable in terms of coverage probability and very competitive in terms of average length when compared to all other prediction intervals considered in this paper.
The skew-generalized-normal distribution [Arellano-Valle, RB, Gomez, HW, Quintana, FA. A new class of skew-normal distributions. Comm Statist Theory Methods 2004;33(7):1465-1480] is a class of asymmetric normal distri...
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The skew-generalized-normal distribution [Arellano-Valle, RB, Gomez, HW, Quintana, FA. A new class of skew-normal distributions. Comm Statist Theory Methods 2004;33(7):1465-1480] is a class of asymmetric normal distributions, which contains the normal and skew-normal distributions as special cases. The main virtues of this distribution is that it is easy to simulate from and it also supplies a genuine expectation-maximization (em) algorithm for maximum likelihood estimation. In this paper, we extend the emalgorithm for linear regression models assuming skew-generalized-normal random errors and we develop a diagnostics analyses via local influence and generalized leverage, following Zhu and Lee's approach. This is because Cook's well-known approach would be more complicated to use to obtain measures of local influence. Finally, results obtained for a real data set are reported, illustrating the usefulness of the proposed method.
Using a multiplicative model, the age-specific relative risk of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, and the time-dependent HIV infection rate can be estimated simultaneously from acquired immunodefic...
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Using a multiplicative model, the age-specific relative risk of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, and the time-dependent HIV infection rate can be estimated simultaneously from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS, incidence data. Non-parametric estimates are arrived at by an em-algorithm, with smoothing, applied to a back-projection model. The method gives estimates which lie on a smooth curve in accordance with strong prior expectations. The approach is illustrated with an application to Australian AIDS data. It is found that the HIV infection rate tends to be estimated more precisely when age is included as a covariate.
A folded type model is developed for analysing compositional data. The proposed model involves an extension of the alpha-transformation for compositional data and provides a new and flexible class of distributions for...
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A folded type model is developed for analysing compositional data. The proposed model involves an extension of the alpha-transformation for compositional data and provides a new and flexible class of distributions for modelling data defined on the simplex sample space. Despite its rather seemingly complex structure, employment of the emalgorithm guarantees efficient parameter estimation. The model is validated through simulation studies and examples which illustrate that the proposed model performs better in terms of capturing the data structure, when compared to the popular logistic normal distribution, and can be advantageous over a similar model without folding.
Existence and consistency of the Maximum Likelihood estimator of the parameters of heterogeneous mixtures of Gaussian and uniform distributions with known number of components are shown under constraints to prevent th...
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Existence and consistency of the Maximum Likelihood estimator of the parameters of heterogeneous mixtures of Gaussian and uniform distributions with known number of components are shown under constraints to prevent the likelihood from degeneration and to ensure identifiability. The em-algorithm is discussed, and for the special case with a single uniform component a practical scheme to find a good local optimum is proposed. The method is compared theoretically and empirically to the estimation of a Gaussian mixture with "noise component" as introduced by Banfield and Raftery (1993) to find out whether it is a worthwhile alternative particularly in situations with outliers and points not belonging to the Gaussian components. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In this study, we have considered a series system composed of stochastically independent M-component where M is a random variable having the zero truncated modified discrete Lindley distribution. This distribution is ...
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In this study, we have considered a series system composed of stochastically independent M-component where M is a random variable having the zero truncated modified discrete Lindley distribution. This distribution is newly introduced by transforming on original parameter. The properties of the distribution of the lifetime of above system have been examined under the given circumstances and also parameters of this new lifetime distribution are estimated by using moments, maximum likelihood and em-algorithm.
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