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On maximum likelihood estimation in mixed normal models with two variance components

Mariusz Grządziel (2014)

Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics

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In the paper we deal with the problem of parameter estimation in the linear normal mixed model with two variance components. We present solutions to the problem of finding the global maximizer of the likelihood function and to the problem of finding the global maximizer of the REML likelihood function in this model.

Variance function estimation via model selection

Teresa Ledwina, Jan Mielniczuk (2010)

Applicationes Mathematicae

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The problem of estimating an unknown variance function in a random design Gaussian heteroscedastic regression model is considered. Both the regression function and the logarithm of the variance function are modelled by piecewise polynomials. A finite collection of such parametric models based on a family of partitions of support of an explanatory variable is studied. Penalized model selection criteria as well as post-model-selection estimates are introduced based on Maximum Likelihood...

Likelihood for random-effect models (with discussion).

Youngjo Lee, John A. Nelder (2005)

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For inferences from random-effect models Lee and Nelder (1996) proposed to use hierarchical likelihood (h-likelihood). It allows influence from models that may include both fixed and random parameters. Because of the presence of unobserved random variables h-likelihood is not a likelihood in the Fisherian sense. The Fisher likelihood framework has advantages such as generality of application, statistical and computational efficiency. We introduce an extended likelihood framework and...

Approximate maximum likelihood estimation for a spatial point pattern.

Jorge Mateu, Francisco Montes (2000)

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Several authors have proposed stochastic and non-stochastic approximations to the maximum likelihood estimate for a spatial point pattern. This approximation is necessary because of the difficulty of evaluating the normalizing constant. However, it appears to be neither a general theory which provides grounds for preferring a particular method, nor any extensive empirical comparisons. In this paper, we review five general methods based on approximations to the maximum likelihood estimate...

Biquadratic functions: stationarity and invertibility in estimated time-series models.

D. S. G. Pollock (1989)

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It is important that the estimates of the parameters of an autoregressive moving-average (ARMA) model should satisfy the conditions of stationarity and invertibility. It can be shown that the unconditional maximum-likelihood estimates are bound to fill these conditions regardless of the size of the sample from which they are derived; and, in some quarters, it has been argued that they should be used in preference to any other estimates when the size of he sample is small. However, the...

Likelihood and quasi - likelihood estimation of transition probabilities

Ewa Bakinowska, Radosław Kala (2004)

Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics

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In the paper two approaches to the problem of estimation of transition probabilities are considered. The approach by McCullagh and Nelder [5], based on the independent model and the quasi-likelihood function, is compared with the approach based on the marginal model and the standard likelihood function. The estimates following from these two approaches are illustrated on a simple example which was used by McCullagh and Nelder.

Likelihood for interval-censored observations from multi-state models.

Daniel Commenges (2003)

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We consider the mixed dicrete-continuous pattern of observation in a multi-state model; this is a classical pattern because very often clinical status is assessed at discrete visit times while time of death is observed exactly. The likelihood can easily be written heuristically for such models. However a formal proof is not easy in such observational patterns. We give a rigorous derivation al the likelihood for the illness-death model based on applying Jacod´s formula to an observed...