Imputation of mean of ratios for missing data and its application to PPSWR sampling

In practical survey sampling, nonresponse phenomenon is unavoidable. How to impute missing data is an important problem. There are several imputation methods in the literature. In this paper, the imputation method of the mean of ratios for missing data under uniform response is applied to the estimation of a finite population mean when the PPSWR sampling is used. The imputed estimator is valid under the corresponding response mechanism regardless of the model as well as under the ratio model regardless of the response mechanism. The approximately unbiased jackknife variance estimator is also presented. All of these results are extended to the case of non-uniform response. Simulation studies show the good performance of the proposed estimators.     

Positive shrinkage, improved pretest and absolute penalty estimators in partially linear models

Shrinkage estimators of a partially linear regression parameter vector are constructed by shrinking estimators in the direction of the estimate which is appropriate when the regression parameters are restricted to a linear subspace. We investigate the asymptotic properties of positive Stein-type and improved pretest semiparametric estimators under quadratic loss. Under an asymptotic distributional quadratic risk criterion, their relative dominance picture is explored analytically. It is shown that positive Stein-type semiparametric estimators perform better than the usual Stein-type and least square semiparametric estimators and that an improved pretest semiparametric estimator is superior to the usual pretest semiparametric estimator. We also consider an absolute penalty type estimator for partially linear models and give a Monte Carlo simulation comparisons of positive shrinkage, improved pretest and the absolute penalty type estimators. The comparison shows that the shrinkage method performs better than the absolute penalty type estimation method when the dimension of the parameter space is much larger than that of the linear subspace.     

Existence of the uniformly minimum risk unbiased estimator in seemingly unrelated regression system

For a seemingly unrelated regression system with the assumption of normality, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the Uniformly Minimum Risk Unbiased (UMRU) estimator of regression coefficients under strictly convex loss is obtained; it is proved that any unbiased estimator can not improve the least squares estimator; it is also shown that no UMRU estimator exists under missing observations.Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

因变量缺失下线性变量含误差模型的估计

主要考虑线性模型在自变量测量含误差以及因变量缺失情况下的估计问题.对于模型中的回归系数,我们基于最小二乘方法提出了两类估计,其中一类估计只由完整观测数据构成,而另外一类估计利用的则是利用简单插补方法构造的完整数据.证明了这两类估计是渐近正态性的.     

Method of Moments Estimators and Multi–step MLE for Poisson Processes

We introduce two types of estimators of the finite–dimensional parameters in the case of observations of inhomogeneous Poisson processes. These are the estimators of the method of moments and Multi–step MLE. It is shown that the estimators of the method of moments are consistent and asymptotically normal and the Multi–step MLE are consistent and asymptotically efficient. The construction of Multi–step MLE–process is done in two steps. First we construct a consistent estimator by the observations on some learning interval and then this estimator is used for construction of One–step and Two–step MLEs. The main advantage of the proposed approach is its computational simplicity.     

Estimation of Pareto Distribution from Interval Censored Observations

The problem of estimating the scale parameter in the Pareto distribution from interval censored observations is considered. Four kinds of estimators, including the maximum likelihood estimator and least square estimator, are evaluated. The variance of them are compared, and the numerical simulation results is also given.     

带有结构变化的线性模型中参数估计的一些结果

本文在一些纯量损失和矩阵损失下研究带有结构变化的正态线性模型中参数的估计问题．分别给出 了存在回归系数的一致最小风险无偏（ＵＭＲＵ）估计和一致最小风险同变（ＵＭＲＥ）估计的充要条件, 证明了不存在误差方差在仿射变换群下的ＵＭＲＥ估计．导出了回归系数的最小二乘估计的可容许性 和极小极大性．     

L1-Norm Estimation and Random Weighting Method in a Semiparametric Model

In this paper, the L_1-norm estimators and the random weighted statistic for a semiparametric regression model are constructed, the strong convergence rates of estimators are obtain under certain conditions, the strong efficiency of the random weighting method is shown. A simulation study is conducted to compare the L_1-norm estimator with the least square estimator in term of approximate accuracy, and simulation results are given for comparison between the random weighting method and normal approximation method.     

缺失数据下N-W估计

在缺失响应变量的不完全数据下,研究独立或相依样本时非参数回归函数的Nadaraya- Watson估计,在一定条件下,证明了估计量的渐近正态性,获得的结论可在时间序列分析中得到应用,模拟研究说明了该方法在有限样本下具有良好的的性质。     

复杂设计下类均值复制与类加权均值复制的比较（英文）

复制数据是处理抽样调查中数据项目缺失的一种常用方法。在两种常见模型及复杂抽样设计下，本文对处理数据项目缺失的类均值复制和类加权均值复制方法进行了对比。     

The shooting S-estimator for robust regression

To perform multiple regression, the least squares estimator is commonly used. However, this estimator is not robust to outliers. Therefore, robust methods such as S-estimation have been proposed. These estimators flag any observation with a large residual as an outlier and downweight it in the further procedure. However, a large residual may be caused by an outlier in only one single predictor variable, and downweighting the complete observation results in a loss of information. Therefore, we propose the shooting S-estimator, a regression estimator that is especially designed for situations where a large number of observations suffer from contamination in a small number of predictor variables. The shooting S-estimator combines the ideas of the coordinate descent algorithm with simple S-regression, which makes it robust against componentwise contamination, at the cost of failing the regression equivariance property.     

Multiple imputations and the missing censoring indicator model

Semiparametric random censorship (SRC) models (Dikta, 1998) provide an attractive framework for estimating survival functions when censoring indicators are fully or partially available. When there are missing censoring indicators (MCIs), the SRC approach employs a model-based estimate of the conditional expectation of the censoring indicator given the observed time, where the model parameters are estimated using only the complete cases. The multiple imputations approach, on the other hand, utilizes this model-based estimate to impute the missing censoring indicators and form several completed data sets. The Kaplan-Meier and SRC estimators based on the several completed data sets are averaged to arrive at the multiple imputations Kaplan-Meier (MIKM) and the multiple imputations SRC (MISRC) estimators. While the MIKM estimator is asymptotically as efficient as or less efficient than the standard SRC-based estimator that involves no imputations, here we investigate the performance of the MISRC estimator and prove that it attains the benchmark variance set by the SRC-based estimator. We also present numerical results comparing the performances of the estimators under several misspecified models for the above mentioned conditional expectation.     

纵向数据非参数混合效应模型的一个局部不变估计

非参数核回归方法近年来已被用于纵向数据的分析(Lin和Carroll,2000)．一个颇具争议性的问题是在非参数核回归中是否需要考虑纵向数据间的相关性．Lin和Carroll (2000)证明了基于独立性(即忽略相关性)的核估计在一类核GEE估计量中是(渐近)最有效的．基于混合效应模型方法作者提出了一个不同的核估计类,它自然而有效地结合了纵向数据的相关结构．估计量达到了与Lin和Carroll的估计量相同的渐近有效性,且在有限样本情形下表现更好．由此方法可以很容易地获得对于总体和个体的非参数曲线估计．所提出的估计量具有较好的统计性质,且实施方便,从而对实际工作者具有较大的吸引力．     

Functional-coefficient partially linear regression model

In this paper, the functional-coefficient partially linear regression (FCPLR) model is proposed by combining nonparametric and functional-coefficient regression (FCR) model. It includes the FCR model and the nonparametric regression (NPR) model as its special cases. It is also a generalization of the partially linear regression (PLR) model obtained by replacing the parameters in the PLR model with some functions of the covariates. The local linear technique and the integrated method are employed to give initial estimators of all functions in the FCPLR model. These initial estimators are asymptotically normal. The initial estimator of the constant part function shares the same bias as the local linear estimator of this function in the univariate nonparametric model, but the variance of the former is bigger than that of the latter. Similarly, initial estimators of every coefficient function share the same bias as the local linear estimates in the univariate FCR model, but the variance of the former is bigger than that of the latter. To decrease the variance of the initial estimates, a one-step back-fitting technique is used to obtain the improved estimators of all functions. The improved estimator of the constant part function has the same asymptotic normality property as the local linear nonparametric regression for univariate data. The improved estimators of the coefficient functions have the same asymptotic normality properties as the local linear estimates in FCR model. The bandwidths and the smoothing variables are selected by a data-driven method. Both simulated and real data examples related to nonlinear time series modeling are used to illustrate the applications of the FCPLR model.     

A fusion of least squares and empirical likelihood for regression models with a missing binary covariate

Multiply robust inference has attracted much attention recently in the context of missing response data. An estimation procedure is multiply robust, if it can incorporate information from multiple candidate models, and meanwhile the resulting estimator is consistent as long as one of the candidate models is correctly specified. This property is appealing, since it provides the user a flexible modeling strategy with better protection against model misspecification. We explore this attractive property for the regression models with a binary covariate that is missing at random. We start from a reformulation of the celebrated augmented inverse probability weighted estimating equation, and based on this reformulation, we propose a novel combination of the least squares and empirical likelihood to separately handling each of the two types of multiple candidate models, one for the missing variable regression and the other for the missingness mechanism. Due to the separation, all the working models are fused concisely and effectively. The asymptotic normality of our estimator is established through the theory of estimating function with plugged-in nuisance parameter estimates. The finite-sample performance of our procedure is illustrated both through the simulation studies and the analysis of a dementia data collected by the national Alzheimer’s coordinating center.     

Hazard function estimation with cause-of-death data missing at random

Hazard function estimation is an important part of survival analysis. Interest often centers on estimating the hazard function associated with a particular cause of death. We propose three nonparametric kernel estimators for the hazard function, all of which are appropriate when death times are subject to random censorship and censoring indicators can be missing at random. Specifically, we present a regression surrogate estimator, an imputation estimator, and an inverse probability weighted estimator. All three estimators are uniformly strongly consistent and asymptotically normal. We derive asymptotic representations of the mean squared error and the mean integrated squared error for these estimators and we discuss a data-driven bandwidth selection method. A simulation study, conducted to assess finite sample behavior, demonstrates that the proposed hazard estimators perform relatively well. We illustrate our methods with an analysis of some vascular disease data.     

缺失数据下半参数单调回归模型的估计

研究了响应变量缺失情况下半参数单调回归模型的估计问题。利用嵌入核估计的方法得到了参数部分的估计,在此基础上构造了非参数部分的单调约束最小二乘估计。证明了参数估计的渐近分布为正态分布,得到了非参数部分估计的收敛速度。通过随机模拟研究了有限样本量下估计的表现。     

IMPUTING MISSING NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY DATA AND THE BOOTSTRAP

Gathering information on natural resource inventories is expensive, but lack of data inhibits resource sector modeling and policy analysis. Most work has focused on drawing broader inventory estimates from small survey samples. Other studies have used simple forward forecasting equations to project missing values. This research develops a method to impute missing inventory and growth observations when annual survey observations are not available. A one-way error component model is estimated and missing inventory values are imputed using an optimally weighted combination of forward and backward projections. This method ensures conformity of imputed observations with beginning and ending inventories. Confidence intervals for imputed inventory estimates are formed using the bootstrap method. Empirical results for estimated softwood and hardwood inventories in Louisiana are presented.     

Estimation of means of multivariate normal populations with order restriction

Multivariate isotonic regression theory plays a key role in the field of statistical inference under order restriction for vector valued parameters. Two cases of estimating multivariate normal means under order restricted set are considered. One case is that covariance matrices are known, the other one is that covariance matrices are unknown but are restricted by partial order. This paper shows that when covariance matrices are known, the estimator given by this paper always dominates unrestricted maximum likelihood estimator uniformly, and when covariance matrices are unknown, the plug-in estimator dominates unrestricted maximum likelihood estimator under the order restricted set of covariance matrices. The isotonic regression estimators in this paper are the generalizations of plug-in estimators in unitary case.     

THE RATES OF CONVERGENCE OF M-ESTIMATORS FOR PARTLY LINEAR MODELS IN DEPENDENT CASES

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