Tail-behaviour of location estimators in non-regular cases
This paper deals with the problem of estimation in the parametric case for discrete random variables. Their study is facilitated by the powerful method of probability generating function.
Let be a biased estimate of the parameter based on all observations , , and let () be the same estimate of the parameter obtained after deletion of the -th observation. If the expectation of the estimators and are expressed as where is a known sequence of real numbers and is a function of , then this system of equations can be regarded as a linear model. The least squares method gives the generalized jackknife estimator. Using this method, it is possible to obtain the unbiased...
The present paper deals with the extension of the likelihood estimation to the situation where the experimentation does not provide exact information but rather vague information.The extension process tries to achieve three fundamental objectives: the new method must be an extension of the maximum likelihood method, it has to be very simple to apply and it must allow for an interesting interpretation.These objectives are achieved herein by using the following concepts: the fuzzy information (introduced...
If a symmetric distribution is ε-contaminated and the contaminants have finite first moments, the median may cease to be the most robust estimator of location.
0. Introduction and summary. The analysis of data from the gravitational-wave detectors that are currently under construction in several countries will be a challenging problem. The reason is that gravitational-vawe signals are expected to be extremely weak and often very rare. Therefore it will be of great importance to implement optimal statistical methods to extract all possible information about the signals from the noisy data sets. Careful statistical analysis based on correct application of...
From the practical point of view the regression analysis and its Least Squares method is clearly one of the most used techniques of statistics. Unfortunately, if there is some problem present in the data (for example contamination), classical methods are not longer suitable. A lot of methods have been proposed to overcome these problematic situations. In this contribution we focus on special kind of methods based on trimming. There exist several approaches which use trimming off part of the observations,...