Estimating parameters in one-way analysis of covariance model with short-tailed symmetric error distributions |
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Authors: | Birdal Şenoğlu |
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Affiliation: | Department of Statistics, Eski?ehir Osmangazi University, Eski?ehir 26480, Turkey |
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Abstract: | We consider one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) model with a single covariate when the distribution of error terms are short-tailed symmetric. The maximum likelihood (ML) estimators of the parameters are intractable. We, therefore, employ a simple method known as modified maximum likelihood (MML) to derive the estimators of the model parameters. The method is based on linearization of the intractable terms in likelihood equations. Incorporating these linearizations in the maximum likelihood, we get the modified likelihood equations. Then the MML estimators which are the solutions of these modified equations are obtained. Computer simulations were performed to investigate the efficiencies of the proposed estimators. The simulation results show that the proposed estimators are remarkably efficient compared with the conventional least squares (LS) estimators. |
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Keywords: | Covariance analysis Modified likelihood Short-tailed symmetric family Non-normality Efficiency |
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