Statistical inference procedures based on least absolute deviations involve estimates of a matrix which plays the role of a multivariate nuisance parameter. To estimate this matrix, we use kernel smoothing. We show consistency and obtain bounds on the rate of convergence.
An iterative method based on a fixed-point property is proposed for finding maximum likelihood estimators for parameters in a model of network reliability with spatial dependence. The method is shown to converge at a geometric rate under natural conditions on data.
An iterative method based on a fixed-point property is proposed for finding maximum likelihood estimators for parameters in a model of network reliability with spatial dependence. The method is shown to converge at a geometric rate under natural conditions on data.
This paper discusses the estimation of parameters in second order exponential autoregressive models.
This paper concerns the estimation of the parameters that describe spherical invariant stable distributions: the index α ∈ (0,2] and the scale parameter σ >0. We present a kind of moment estimators derived from specially transformed original data.
The paper deals with the estimation of unknown vector parameter of mean and scalar parameters of variance as well in two-stage linear model, which is a special type of mixed linear model. The necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of uniformly best unbiased estimator of parameter of means is given. The explicite formulas for these estimators and for the estimators of the parameters of variance as well are derived.
Let be an -dimensional random vector which is distributed. A minimum variance unbiased estimator is given for provided is an unbiasedly estimable functional of an unknown -dimensional parameter .
Let , i ≥ 1, be i.i.d. observable Cox processes on [a,b] directed by random measures Mi. Assume that the probability law of the Mi is completely unknown. Random techniques are developed (we use data from the processes ,..., to construct a partition of [a,b] whose extremities are random) to estimate L(μ,g) = E(exp(-(N(g) - μ(g))) | N - μ ≥ 0).
The P.O.T. method (Peaks Over Threshold) consists in using the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) as an approximation for the distribution of excesses over a high threshold. In this work, we use a refinement of this approximation in order to estimate second order parameters of the model using the method of probability-weighted moments (PWM): in particular, this leads to the introduction of a new estimator for the second order parameter ρ, which will be compared to other recent estimators through...
The P.O.T. method (Peaks Over Threshold) consists in using the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) as an approximation for the distribution of excesses over a high threshold. In this work, we use a refinement of this approximation in order to estimate second order parameters of the model using the method of probability-weighted moments (PWM): in particular, this leads to the introduction of a new estimator for the second order parameter ρ, which will be compared to other recent estimators through...
Summary characteristics play an important role in the analysis of spatial point processes. We discuss various approaches to estimating summary characteristics from replicated observations of a stationary point process. The estimators are compared with respect to their integrated squared error. Simulations for three basic types of point processes help to indicate the best way of pooling the subwindow estimators. The most appropriate way depends on the particular summary characteristic, edge-correction...
We consider the problem of estimating the density of a determinantal process from the observation of independent copies of it. We use an aggregation procedure based on robust testing to build our estimator. We establish non-asymptotic risk bounds with respect to the Hellinger loss and deduce, when goes to infinity, uniform rates of convergence over classes of densities of interest.