Estimation under failure-censored step-stress life test for the generalized exponential distribution parameters

Accelerated life testing of materials is used to collect failure data quickly when the lifetime of a specimen under use condition is too long. This article considers estimates of the generalized exponential distribution parameters under step-stress partially accelerated life testing with Type-II censoring. The maximum likelihood approach is applied to derive point and asymptotic confidence interval estimations of the model parameters. The performance of the estimators is evaluated numerically for different parameter values and different sample sizes via their mean square error. Also, the average confidence intervals lengths and the associated coverage probabilities are obtained. A simulation study is conducted for illustration.     

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The log-normal distribution is a common choice for modeling positively skewed data arising from many practical applications.This article introduces a new method of constructing confidence interval for a common mean shared by several log-normal populations through confidence distributions, which combines all information from independent sources. We develop a non-trivial weighting approach by taking account of the sample variances of related quantities to enhance efficiency. Combined confidence distributions are used to construct confidence intervals for the common mean and a simplified version of one existing method is also proposed. We conduct simulation studies to evaluate the performance of the proposed methods in comparison with existing methods. Our simulation results show that the weighting approach yields shorter interval length than the non-weighting approach. The newly proposed confidence intervals perform very well in terms of empirical coverage probability and average interval length. Finally, applications of the proposed methodology is illustrated through three real data examples.     

区间数据均值的经验似然估计

本文提出了估计区间数据均值的经验似然方法,通过构造区间数据的无偏转换,导出了渐近服从χ2分布的对数经验似然函数,从而得到了均值的置信区间.通过若干模拟例子说明,用本文提出的方法得到的估计,优于用渐近正态法得到的估计.     

Reliability inference of stress–strength model for the truncated proportional hazard rate distribution under progressively Type-II censored samples

This paper considers the reliability inference for the truncated proportional hazard rate stress–strength model based on progressively Type-II censoring scheme. When the stress and strength variables follow the truncated proportional hazard rate distributions, the maximum likelihood estimation and the pivotal quantity estimation of stress–strength reliability are derived. Based on the percentile bootstrap sampling technique, the 95% confidence interval of stress–strength reliability is obtained, as well as the related coverage percentage. Moreover, based on the Fisher Z transformation and the modified generalized pivotal quantity, the 95% modified generalized confidence interval for the stress–strength reliability is obtained. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by the Monte Carlo simulation. The numerical results show that the pivotal quantity estimators performs better than the maximum likelihood estimators. At last, two real datasets are analyzed by the proposed methodology for illustrative purpose. The results of real example analysis show that our model can be applied to the practical problem, the truncated proportional hazard rate distribution can fit the failure data better than other distributions, and the algorithms in this paper are suitable to handle the small sample data.     

Inferences on the common mean of several normal populations under heteroscedasticity

In this paper, we consider the problem of making inferences on the common mean of several normal populations when sample sizes and population variances are possibly unequal. We are mainly concerned with testing hypothesis and constructing confidence interval for the common normal mean. Several researchers have considered this problem and many methods have been proposed based on the asymptotic or approximation results, generalized inferences, and exact pivotal methods. In addition, Chang and Pal (Comput Stat Data Anal 53:321–333, 2008) proposed a parametric bootstrap (PB) approach for this problem based on the maximum likelihood estimators. We also propose a PB approach for making inferences on the common normal mean under heteroscedasticity. The advantages of our method are: (i) it is much simpler than the PB test proposed by Chang and Pal (Comput Stat Data Anal 53:321–333, 2008) since our test statistic is not based on the maximum likelihood estimators which do not have explicit forms, (ii) inverting the acceptance region of test yields a genuine confidence interval in contrast to some exact methods such as the Fisher’s method, (iii) it works well in terms of controlling the Type I error rate for small sample sizes and the large number of populations in contrast to Chang and Pal (Comput Stat Data Anal 53:321–333, 2008) method, (iv) finally, it has higher power than recommended methods such as the Fisher’s exact method.     

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本文利用广义p-值和广义置信区间的概念构造 含有三个随机效应的套误差分量模型中方差分量的几种新的精确检验和置信区间, 并讨论它们在尺度变换下的不变性. 模拟结果表明, 基于广义p-值的检验很好地控制了犯第一类错误的概率.     

双参数指数分布的可靠寿命的广义置信下限

基于双参数指数分布定数截尾数据,利用Weerahanandi给出的广义置信区间的概念,建立了可靠寿命的广义置信下限,并从理论上证明了我们给出的广义置信下限是精确的,即基于广义置信下限的区间估计的覆盖率等于要求的置信水平.广义置信下限需要通过数值方法得到,但是计算方法是简单直接的.在小样本情形下,通过对基于广义置信下限的置信区间与Engelhardt-Bain近似置信区间覆盖率的模拟比较,发现广义置信下限更令人满意.     

On Confidence Intervals in Nonparametric Binary Regression via Edgeworth Expansions

Local confidence intervals for regression function with binary response variable are constructed. These intervals are based on both theoretical and “plug-in” normal asymptotic distribution of a usual statistic. In the plug-in approach, two ways of estimating bias are proposed; for them we obtain the mean squared error and deduce an expression of an optimal bandwidth. The rate of convergence of theoretical distributions to their limits is obtained by means of Edgeworth expansions. Likewise, these expansions allow us to deduce properties about the coverage probability of the confidence intervals. Theoretic approximations to that probability are compared in a simulation study with the corresponding coverage rates.     

混合位置分布中分量参数的统计推断

对混合位置分布族,当混合比已知时,提出了关于分量参数的假设检验和区间估计方法,所提出的方法基于广义枢轴模型.在一定的条件下,检验的实际水平等于名义水平,且各置信域的实际覆盖率等于名义覆盖率.在更一般的场合,检验是相合的,并且各置信域的实际覆盖率趋于名义覆盖率.模拟显示所给的方法是令人满意的.     

Empirical Likelihood Inference Under Stratified Random Sampling in the Presence of Measurement Error

Suppose that several different imperfect instruments and one perfect instrument are used independently to measure some characteristic of a population. In order to make full use of the sample information, in this paper the empirical likelihood method is put forward for making inferences on parameters of interest under stratified random sampling in the presence of measurement error, Our results show that it can lead to estimators which are asymptotically normal and utilize all the available sample information. We also obtain the asymptotic distribution of empirical likelihood testing statistics. In particular, we apply the method to obtain estimator and confidence interval of population mean.     

Likelihood ratio inference for mean residual life of length-biased random variable

In lifetime data analysis, naturally recorded observations are length-biased data if the probability to select an item is proportional to its length. Based on i.i.d. observations of the true distribution, empirical likelihood (EL) procedure is proposed for the inference on mean residual life (MRL) of naturally recorded item. The limit distribution of the EL based log-likelihood ratio is proved to be the chi-square distribution. Under right censorship, since the EL based log-likelihood ratio leads to a scaled chi-square distribution and estimating the scale parameter leads to lower coverage of confidence interval, we propose an algorithm to calculate the likelihood ratio (LR) directly. The corresponding log-likelihood ratio converges to the standard chi-square distribution and the corresponding confidence interval has a better coverage. Simulation studies are used to support the theoretical results.     

附加信息下的p分位数光滑经验似然置信区间

Chen和Hall在1993年使用光滑的经验似然方法建立了p分位数置信区间.本文在有部分附加信息的情况下使用了光滑的经验似然方法建立了p分位数的置信区间,从渐近功效函数方面对置信区间做了比较,后者优于前者.并且置信概率误差的阶为n-1,证明了本文所建立的置信区间是可以Bartlett修正的.     

左截尾双参数指数分布的可靠寿命的广义置信下限

本文基于左截尾双参数指数分布定数截尾数据,利用Weerahandi给出的广义枢轴量和广义置信区间的概念,通过两种不同的方法建立了可靠寿命的广义置信下限.第1种方法利用位置参数无限制时可靠寿命的广义置信下限来定义左截尾情形下可靠寿命的限制广义置信下限,第2种方法基于广义枢轴量在限制参数空间上的条件分布给出可靠寿命的条件广义置信下限.我们分别研究了这两种置信下限的性质,给出了简单易行的数值计算方法.模拟比较表明限制广义置信下限具有好的覆盖率性质,条件广义置信下限的覆盖率与参数取值有关,但它有时比限制广义置信下限具有更大均值和更小标准差.     

线性测量误差模型的平均估计

频率模型平均估计近年来受到了较大的关注,但对有测量误差的观测数据尚未见到任何研究.文章主要考虑了线性测量误差模型的平均估计问题,导出了模型平均估计的渐近分布,基于Hjort和Claeskens(2003)的思想构造了一个覆盖真实参数的概率趋于预定水平的置信区间,并证明了该置信区间与基于全模型正态逼近所构造的置信区间的渐近等价性.模拟结果表明当协变量存在测量误差时,模型平均估计能明显增加点估计的效率.     

广义Lorenz 曲线的非参数统计推断

本文讨论了广义Lorenz 曲线的经验似然统计推断. 在简单随机抽样、分层随机抽样和整群随机抽样下, 本文分别定义了广义Lorenz 坐标的pro le 经验似然比统计量, 得出这些经验似然比的极限分布为带系数的自由度为1 的χ² 分布. 对于整个Lorenz 曲线, 基于经验似然方法类似地得出相应的极限过程. 根据所得的经验似然理论, 本文给出了bootstrap 经验似然置信区间构造方法, 并通过数据模拟, 对新给出的广义Lorenz 坐标的bootstrap 经验似然置信区间与渐近正态置信区间以及bootstrap 置信区间等进行了对比研究. 对整个Lorenz 曲线, 基于经验似然方法对其置信域也进行了模拟研究. 最后我们将所推荐的置信区间应用到实例中.     

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本文利用广义p值和广义置信区间理论,研究了两独立服从双参数指数分布产品平均寿命比率的统计推断问题.给出了平均寿命比率的广义置信区间,并对该区间的覆盖率和区间长度进行了数据模拟,模拟结果与已有文献中的近似置信区间进行了比较,结果显示本文给出的广义置信区间的区间覆盖率和区间长度都要优于近似置信区间,特别是在小样本的情况下.     

Alternative interval estimation for parameters of bivariate exponential model with time varying covariate

This paper investigates several alternative methods of constructing confidence interval estimates based on the bootstrap and jackknife techniques for the parameters of a parallel two-component system model with dependent failure and a time varying covariate, when data is censored. This model is an extension of the bivariate exponential model. Bootstrap confidence interval techniques, the bootstrap-t, bootstrap-percentile and BCa methods are compared with the confidence interval based on the jackknife via coverage probability study using simulated data. The results clearly indicate that the jackknife technique works far better than any of the bootstrap techniques when dealing with censored data.     

逆抽样下流行病发病率的逼近与渐近置信区间

流行病研究的重要任务之一就是较为精确地估计出疾病的流行程度.疾病的流行性通常用发病率来表征.由于置信区间估计是一种体现对发病率估计好坏的途径,所以它是估计边限的重要提示物.作者在逆抽样条件下探究了7种流行病发病率的逼近与渐近的置信区间估计.通过蒙特卡罗方法,广泛地比较了这些方法的表现性能.为了方便今后进一步应用此结果,制做了许多相应的表格.这些表格清楚地表明为了构造出具有指定期望值的置信区所需要的最小病例数.模拟的结果表明:就流行病发病率的区间估计的覆盖率与区间大小的稳定性而言,逼近与渐近方法要优越于精确方法.更多的研究表明:鞍点逼近型置信区间就控制覆盖率和平均区间长度而言表现得最好,因此,在实际应用中如果能得到,建议尽量使用它.     

Computation of Confidence Regions for Optimal Factor Levels in Constrained Response Surface Problems

This article presents an improved approach for computing the confidence regions for the optimal factor settings obtained from optimizing a general response surface model. The approach has a better computational efficiency and improved accuracy compared to existing methodology. A three-factor mixture experiment was used for the performance comparison. The coverage rate properties of the resulting confidence regions were assessed through an extensive simulation study.     

区间数据情形下线性模型的经验似然推断

§1Introduction Instatisticalapplications,weoftenencounterintervalcensoreddatawhenafailure timeYcannotbeobserved,butcanonlybedeterminedtolieinanintervalobtainedfroma sequenceofexaminationtimes.Forinstance,themaximumdosagewhichpatientscan endureisconcerned.LetYibethemaximumdosagewhichtheithpatientcanendure,Ui,j(j=1,2,...,k)bethedosagewhichthepatienthasbeentested.ItisobviousthatYiis unobservable.SupposetheithpatientisnormalwhenthedosageisUi,j,andhe(orshe)is abnormalwhenthedosageisUi,j+1.Then…