Limited Deviation Estimators of the Poisson Parameter.
The methods to establish the limiting spectral distribution (LSD) of large dimensional random matrices includes the well-known moment method which invokes the trace formula. Its success has been demonstrated in several types of matrices such as the Wigner matrix and the sample covariance matrix. In a recent article Bryc, Dembo and Jiang [Ann. Probab.34 (2006) 1–38] establish the LSD for random Toeplitz and Hankel matrices using the moment method. They perform the necessary counting of terms in the...
We study Bayesian decision making based on observations () of the discrete-time price dynamics of a financial asset, when the hypothesis a special -period binomial model and the alternative is a different -period binomial model. As the observation gaps tend to zero (i. e. ), we obtain the limits of the corresponding Bayes risk as well as of the related Hellinger integrals and power divergences. Furthermore, we also give an example for the “non-commutativity” between Bayesian statistical and...
L'implication statistique, selon R.Gras, permet d'associer à un ensemble de variables binaires ou fréquentielles un préordre représentable par un graphe non symétrique et par une hiérarchie ascendante. L'analyse d'un questionnaire à modalités totalement ordonnées nous contraint, pour conserver l'information maximale, à étendre cette notion à des variables modales et, par suite et a fortiori, à des variables ordinales qui s'y ramènent. A la suite de cette construction, on examine les contributions...
Si le problème de la concomitance de deux variables a et b trouve une partie de sa réponse dans l'étude symétrique de la corrélation ou dans celle de la similarité, celui de l'implication (si a alors b) passe, en revanche, par l'examen d'une relation dissymétrique. Par rapport à une problématique psychologique de complexité, R. Gras, dans sa thèse, a apporté une contribution qui a permis de nombreuses applications de ce type de relation dans des travaux de recherche en psychologie génétique et en...
Some methods for approximating non-linear AR(1) processes by classical linear AR(1) models are proposed. The quality of approximation is studied in special non-linear AR(1) models by means of comparisons of quality of extrapolation and interpolation in the original models and in their approximations. It is assumed that the white noise has either rectangular or exponential distribution.
The distributions of linear combinations, products and ratios of random variables arise in many areas of engineering. In this note, the exact distributions of , and are derived when and are independent normal and logistic random variables. The normal and logistic distributions have been two of the most popular models for measurement errors in engineering.
The paper deals with the linear comparative calibration problem, i. e. the situation when both variables are subject to errors. Considered is a quite general model which allows to include possibly correlated data (measurements). From statistical point of view the model could be represented by the linear errors-in-variables (EIV) model. We suggest an iterative algorithm for estimation the parameters of the analysis function (inverse of the calibration line) and we solve the problem of deriving the...
Linear conform transformation in the case of non-negligible errors in both coordinate systems is investigated. Estimation of transformation parameters and their statistical properties are described. Confidence ellipses of transformed nonidentical points and cross covariance matrices among them and identical points are determined. Some simulation for a verification of theoretical results are presented.
The Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) technique is an important and well-developed area of classification, and to date many linear (and also nonlinear) discrimination methods have been put forward. A complication in applying LDA to real data occurs when the number of features exceeds that of observations. In this case, the covariance estimates do not have full rank, and thus cannot be inverted. There are a number of ways to deal with this problem. In this paper, we propose improving LDA in this...
Linear error propagation law (LEPL) has been using frequently also for nonlinear functions. It can be adequate for an actual situation however it need not be so. It is useful to use some rule in order to recognize whether LEPL is admissible. The aim of the paper is to find such rule.
In mixed linear statistical models the best linear unbiased estimators need a known covariance matrix. However, the variance components must be usually estimated. Thus a problem arises what is the covariance matrix of the plug-in estimators.
A linear model with approximate variance components is considered. Differences among approximate and actual values of variance components influence the proper position and the shape of confidence ellipsoids, the level of statistical tests and their power function. A procedure how to recognize whether these diferences can be neglected is given in the paper.
The properties of the regular linear model are well known (see [1], Chapter 1). In this paper the situation where the vector of the first order parameters is divided into two parts (to the vector of the useful parameters and to the vector of the nuisance parameters) is considered. It will be shown how the BLUEs of these parameters will be changed by constraints given on them. The theory will be illustrated by an example from the practice.