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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and
devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may
begin a movement- but it passes away from them.
They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes
Has mankind arrived at the same place at the same time around the entire planet? On so many levels, powerful forces are attacking the incumbents and questioning the ruling philosophy and the status quo. It's not good enough to deliver the goods, but it seems leaders must also deliver more humility. Arrogant and good means you could be arrogant and without a country, company, or control of policies. This is how the week is unfolding, but it's been the overarching tale of 2013 - revolutions turning on those that lit the first torch and barked the first orders to overcome odds and embrace the impossible.
I'll begin with Ben Bernanke since the Fed is topic number one and the Dow was pounded for a two hundred point loss in yesterday's trading.
Big Ben isn't your conventional bad guy revolutionary. I doubt he's ever worn a beret or smoked cigars from a jungle hideout. He doesn't look like a gun enthusiast and probably hasn't had a fistfight since middle school. He hasn't ordered torture or destruction ... unless you're talking about economic. When it comes to Bernanke his revolutionary moves at the helm of Fed will eventually cut a swath of destruction that could put America on the brink. I don't think it's too late to reverse course and coming up with a timetable is folly - don't even try.
Now, the Fed chairman is scurrying about running from his creation but with nowhere to hide. The Fed offered up a bunch of numbers hoping to erect a barrier and possibly buy time but it only made things worse. Of course like so many global uprisings there are different camps with different beefs. The crowd that thinks only the Fed can save the day, worry about how phony the economic data is, and realize the next time unemployment hits 6.5% it will be distinctly different than the previous time because of all the people that have dropped out of the work force.
Moreover, the quality of jobs being created these days is worse than in any other recovery - lots of college grads flipping burgers.
Then there's the crowd that thinks the Fed shouldn't exist in the first place (put me in this group) and understand any benefits from money printing are ultimately eliminated by drastic inflation, loose economic foundations and the emergence of bubbles. We aren't there yet in housing or the stock market because there is no velocity to all that printing. In other words all that cash is getting sopped up by banks and very healthy organizations that don't need but can't resist taking advantage. I don't blame them.
Yesterday Big Ben managed to anger both camps in the process and you could call him the victim of his own revolution.
Not a Good Look
Maybe it was his moonlighting as the world's most interesting man, as George Zimmer was canned by the very company he founded and fronted as the main pitchman. His "you're gonna love the way you look" had become iconic so what the heck happened?
The company just posted strong earnings and I just told people on TV I though the stock was worth owning in part to management!
I must admit I wasn't too thrilled when Zimmer wooed Occupy anarchists in Oakland, thought it was the very worst kind of pandering - but respected him as a businessman. Men's Warehouse MW is off its all-time high of $53 back in May 2007 but up nicely from the low of $11.65 in January 2009. Plus, the way the whole thing went down ... ugly! It is just not a good look.
High profile founders and CEOs are getting the ax a lot lately even when it seems they're doing great work. Christine Day of Lululemon LULU is probably biggest head scratcher, and while dumping Andrew Mason of Groupon wasn't farfetched his tenure as public company CEO was really short. I'm not sure these executives are victims of their own revolutions or empowered boards that have a public mandate to throw the bums out... even the great ones.
Then there's the world of politics and global protest. Rich and poor nations are feeling besieged and burdened and unfairly treated.
Samba Anyone?
Officials in Brazil have decided not to increase bus fares by ten cents. The quick reversal could either A) placate protestors or B) empower protestors to make additional demands. It wasn't fancy footwork by any means but a quick dance that should at least allow that big time football (soccer) tournament to go off without a hitch. I bet a similar compromise happens in Turkey, too, where a small patch of city park almost toppled the most impressive nation in the Middle East this side of Israel.
World leaders that open markets, educate their citizens, and grow prosperity often stay in power for less time than those that are brutal and backwards (unless they're dictators that happen to understand parts of capitalism). Victims of their own revolutions? To a certain extent they are.
Today's Session
The market will open under a fair amount of pressure as the Street grapples with the Fed's next move, or better yet when that next move occurs. The question is whether the Fed really sees a better economy or is it afraid of its policies and sees a shift in risk-reward composition. It's unlikely the Fed would admit defeat, but there's no way there's comfort with the economic rebound. This morning's economic data release underscores how flaccid this recovery has been.
Initial jobless claims higher to 354,000
PMI 52.2 down from 52.3 and below consensus estimate of 52.7
I don't think the Fed is going to do anything significant with respect to policy for a long time. But, let's watch the shakeout from the sidelines this morning.Back To Wall Street Strategies' Instablog HomePage »
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) declines more than 3 percent while the broader markets rally more than 1 percent. At last, a recent influx of negative sentiment towards Apple. We have the following:
- Consumer Reports not recommending the Apple iPhone 4 because of technical issues resulting in signal loss if the smart phone is held in a particular way
- Competition – but who cares about competition, this is Apple (please notice my sarcasm)
My point is very general. For those who have read books like The Big Short or Fooled by Randomness, we know that unexpected events have crippled investors and those investors have always acted naïve as they have overlooked what they think are such rare situations, which interestingly, become common sense after they occur.
Who thought that there would be any problem with Apple's new iPhone 4? Are analysts really in any position to assure the public that similar problems will not happen again?
What analysts who cover Apple or investors who own Apple will even mention the possibility of Apple losing market share to rivals such as Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Sprint (NYSE:S), among other companies down the road, and that at some point in the future, it is possible that the iPhone loses its edge?
My biggest concern is that Apple's market cap dwindles as a result of investors overlooking the influx of other non-Apple products equivalent to the iPhones and iPods into the market and rather anticipating that Apple's share value will realistically reflect competition throughout time, Apple will, at some point in the future, surprise during some quarter, only not to the upside. Either way, downgrades would then follow, and the ardor for Apple will shift towards another player, as history shows us, prevalently happens.
I am eager to buy the puts on Apple expiring out in 2013, primarily because my catalyst carries a longer-term theme. I will not commit significant capital to outright short the company as it could easily be very burdensome and must wait until September 13, or when the equity LEAPS are added to make my move.
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Big wages for Gina Rinehart's foreigner workers who will get medical insurance and pastoral care
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- May 28, 2012
FOREIGN workers employed at Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill mine will be flown to Australia and provided with medical insurance and pastoral care.
Pay and conditions for up to 1715 workers will be the same as the 6758 Australians employed on the construction of the $9.5 billion mine.
They will also get assistance if they need to find medical help in the remote Pilbara.
When they have finished work on construction of the mine, foreign miners will be flown home at the expense of Ms Rinehart's company.
Roy Hill will offer 2000 fulltime jobs to Australians when it begins operation.
The company did its own research, finding a shortage of local labour to build the mine.
The government announced on Friday it had agreed, in its first enterprise migration agreement, to allow Ms Rinehart to employ up to 1715 overseas workers. They will arrive to a modern gold rush with wages more than double the Australian average.
Melbourne University Professor Mark Wooden said the gap between mining wages and the amount earned by ordinary workers would have grown since the last Australian Bureau of Statistics survey.
Two years ago the average weekly wage for mining workers was $2206.90 compared to the national average of $1010.
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A wealthy businessman with Irish blood, Trevor Magee has come to Ardmore to build a theater - and uncover secrets hidden in his family's past. He thought he had given up on love long ago, but Darcy Gallagher tempts him like no woman ever has. She's gorgeous, intelligent, and she knows what she wants - and he's more than willing to give it to her.
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I did not read the print version but I would assume so.. listening to a story about the Irish with someone reading it with the Irish accent adds to the story.
I was sad when the series was over, I loved listening to Irish having Irish background my self. Feeling like old friends who are now gone .
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I have read these books two or three times, but listening to them is even better. I wear blue tooth head phones around the house doing house work, I would burst out laughing while listening to them, my husband and kids would look at me funny but I didn't care. I love these books and they made my chores easier to do.
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All three books are terribly edited. There's odd inflection, sometimes lack of pausing between sentences and audible breaths or swallow between thoughts. It's bizarre. If you can get beyond that, though, the storyline in all three books is both fun and interesting.
The last story in this series has been much of a disappointment. I found Darcy's character to be unbearable to listen to and honestly quite annoying. And the ending of the spell breaking, after three books of build up it was very...meh. The other two books in the series were great and I would read again, but this one not so much.
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I loved this the first time I read it. Enjoyed it again by listening. Narrative was wonderful
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Too much blame was heaped onto Trevor. He had some to bear but shouldn't be expected to see through the facade Darcy worked so diligently to build from the beginning and nearly through to the end. Does she get a pass because she's pretty and talented with her singing and fiddle playing or does the girl get a pass because of gender???
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I was recently invited to an event called The House of Hugo Boss which was set up to allow bloggers to experience 3 of their classic fragrances. The venue they chose for the event was a place called The Violin Factory near Waterloo and Southbank in London. The moment I walked in I was in love, it's a fabulous space that was restored over 2 and a half years by the architect owner. You may have seen it on Grand Designs.
You can read more about the house over on my post for Yell.com's interior design blog. Do take a look.
After the event my boyfriend and I took a stroll along the Southbank. Regardless of the fact that I've been a Londoner for over 2 years now, it never really gets old. It was lovely and sunny too which is always nice.
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Lest we forget, President Obama; a great man with a great vision for America. His administrations' accomplishments brought our country back from the brink of disaster caused by republican incompetence. More work needs to be done, and, as usual, more republican incompetence needs to be quashed before they cause more damage.
History will mark this as the beginning of the end for America.
Ha, ha, ha, ha! History has already proved YOU wrong, FOOL!
The GOP are idiots. Instead of trying to work with Obama, they try to stop him, and LOSE EVERY TIME!
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TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America.MARIA: Here it is.TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?CLASS : Maria.__________________________________________
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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.__________________________________________
TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell "crocodile?"GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L"TEACHER: No, that's wrongGLENN: Maybe it s wrong, but you asked me how I spell it. _______________________________________________
TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?DONALD: H I J K L M N O.TEACHER: What are you talking about?DONALD : Yesterday you said it's H to O.__________________________________
TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't haveten years ago.WINNIE: Me!__________________________________________
TEACHER: Guss, why do you always get so dirty?GUSS: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are._______________________________________
TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with "I."MILLIE: I is...TEACHER: No, Millie..... Always say, "I am."MILLIE: All right... "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet."_________________________________
TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree,but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punishhim?LOUIS : Because George still had the ax in his hand.______________________________________
TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.______________________________
TEACHER: Clyde, your composition on "My Dog" is exactly the same as yourbrother's. Did you copy his?CLYDE: No, teacher, it's the same dog.___________________________________
TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when peopleare no longer interested?HAROLD: A teacher.
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Most Cited Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference Articles
The most cited articles published since 2011, extracted from Scopus.
A partial overview of the theory of statistics with functional dataAntonio Cuevas
Volume 147, Issue , April 2014, Pages 1-23
The theory and practice of statistical methods in situations where the available data are functions (instead of real numbers or vectors) is often referred to as Functional Data Analysis (FDA). This subject has become increasingly popular from the end of the 1990s and is now a major research field in statistics. The aim of this expository paper is to offer a short tutorial as well as a partial survey of the state of the art in FDA theory. Both the selection of topics and the references list are far from exhaustive. Many interesting ideas and references have been left out for the sake of brevity and readability. In summary, this paper provides: (a) A discussion on the nature and treatment of the functional data.(b) A review of some probabilistic tools especially suited for FDA. (c) A discussion about how the usual centrality parameters, mean, median and mode, can be defined and estimated in the functional setting.(d) Short accounts of the main ideas and current literature on regression, classification, dimension reduction and bootstrap methods in FDA. (e) Some final comments regarding software for FDA. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
A CUSUM control chart for monitoring the variance when parameters are estimatedPhilippe Castagliola | Petros E. Maravelakis
Volume 141, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 1463-1478
CUSUM control chart has been widely used for monitoring the process variance. It is usually used assuming that the nominal process variance is known. However, several researchers have shown that the ability of control charts to signal when a process is out of control is seriously affected unless process parameters are estimated from a large in-control Phase I data set. In this paper we derive the run length properties of a CUSUM chart for monitoring dispersion with estimated process variance and we evaluate the performance of this chart by comparing it with the same chart but with assumed known process parameters. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Mis-specification analyses of gamma and Wiener degradation processesChih Chun Tsai | Sheng Tsaing Tseng | N. Balakrishnan
Volume 141, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 3725-3735
Degradation models are widely used these days to assess the lifetime information of highly reliable products if there exist some quality characteristics (QC) whose degradation over time can be related to the reliability of the product. In this study, motivated by a laser data, we investigate the mis-specification effect on the prediction of product's MTTF (mean-time-to-failure) when the degradation model is wrongly fitted. More specifically, we derive an expression for the asymptotic distribution of quasi-MLE (QMLE) of the product's MTTF when the true model comes from gamma degradation process, but is wrongly assumed to be Wiener degradation process. The penalty for the model mis-specification can then be addressed sequentially. The result demonstrates that the effect on the accuracy of the product's MTTF prediction strongly depends on the ratio of critical value to the scale parameter of the gamma degradation process. The effects on the precision of the product's MTTF prediction are observed to be serious when the shape and scale parameters of the gamma degradation process are large. We then carry out a simulation study to evaluate the penalty of the model mis-specification, using which we show that the simulation results are quite close to the theoretical ones even when the sample size and termination time are not large. For the reverse mis-specification problem, i.e., when the true degradation is a Wiener process, but is wrongly assumed to be a gamma degradation process, we carry out a Monte Carlo simulation study to examine the effect of the corresponding model mis-specification. The obtained results reveal that the effect of this model mis-specification is negligible. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Correlated variables in regression: Clustering and sparse estimationPeter Bühlmann | Philipp Rütimann | Sara van de Geer | Cun Hui Zhang
Volume 143, Issue 11, November 2013, Pages 1835-1858
We consider estimation in a high-dimensional linear model with strongly correlated variables. We propose to cluster the variables first and do subsequent sparse estimation such as the Lasso for cluster-representatives or the group Lasso based on the structure from the clusters. Regarding the first step, we present a novel and bottom-up agglomerative clustering algorithm based on canonical correlations, and we show that it finds an optimal solution and is statistically consistent. We also present some theoretical arguments that canonical correlation based clustering leads to a better-posed compatibility constant for the design matrix which ensures identifiability and an oracle inequality for the group Lasso. Furthermore, we discuss circumstances where cluster-representatives and using the Lasso as subsequent estimator leads to improved results for prediction and detection of variables. We complement the theoretical analysis with various empirical results. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
Stochastic comparisons of order statistics in the scale modelBaha Eldin Khaledi | Sepideh Farsinezhad | Subhash C. Kochar
Volume 141, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 276-286
Independent random variables Xλ1,...,Xλn are said to belong to the scale family of distributions if Xλi~F(λix), for i=1,...,. n, where F is an absolutely continuous distribution function with hazard rate r and reverse hazard rate r... We show that the hazard rate (reverse hazard rate) of a series (parallel) system consisting of components with lifetimes Xλ1,...,Xλn is Schur concave (convex) with respect to the vector λ, if x2r'(x) (x2r..'(x)) is decreasing (increasing). We also show that if xr(x) is increasing in x, then the survival function of the parallel system is increasing in the vector λ with respect to p-larger order, an order weaker than majorization. We prove that all these new results hold for the scaled generalized gamma family as well as the power-generalized Weibull family of distributions. We also show that in the case of generalized gamma and power generalized Weibull distribution, under some conditions on the shape parameters, the vector of order statistics corresponding to Xλi's is stochastically increasing in the vector λ with respect to majorization thus generalizing the main results in Sun and Zhang (2005) and Khaledi and Kochar (2006). © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Energy statistics: A class of statistics based on distancesGábor J. Székely | Maria L. Rizzo
Volume 143, Issue 8, August 2013, Pages 1249-1272
Energy distance is a statistical distance between the distributions of random vectors, which characterizes equality of distributions. The name energy derives from Newton's gravitational potential energy, and there is an elegant relation to the notion of potential energy between statistical observations. Energy statistics are functions of distances between statistical observations in metric spaces. Thus even if the observations are complex objects, like functions, one can use their real valued nonnegative distances for inference. Theory and application of energy statistics are discussed and illustrated. Finally, we explore the notion of potential and kinetic energy of goodness-of-fit. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
Spline-backfitted kernel smoothing of partially linear additive modelShujie Ma | Lijian Yang
Volume 141, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 204-219
A spline-backfitted kernel smoothing method is proposed for partially linear additive model. Under assumptions of stationarity and geometric mixing, the proposed function and parameter estimators are oracally efficient and fast to compute. Such superior properties are achieved by applying to the data spline smoothing and kernel smoothing consecutively. Simulation experiments with both moderate and large number of variables confirm the asymptotic results. Application to the Boston housing data serves as a practical illustration of the method. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
The treatment versus experimentation dilemma in dose finding studiesD. Azriel | M. Mandel | Y. Rinott
Volume 141, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 2759-2768
Phase I clinical trials are conducted in order to find the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of a given drug from a finite set of doses. For ethical reasons, these studies are usually sequential, treating patients or groups of patients with the optimal dose according to the current knowledge, with the hope that this will lead to using the true MTD from some time on. However, the first result proved here is that this goal is infeasible, and that such designs, and, more generally, designs that concentrate on one dose from some time on, cannot provide consistent estimators for the MTD unless very strong parametric assumptions hold. Allowing some non-MTD treatment, we construct a randomized design that assigns the MTD with probability that approaches one as the size of the experiment goes to infinity and estimates the MTD consistently. We compare the suggested design with several methods by simulations, studying their performances in terms of correct estimation of the MTD and the proportion of individuals treated with the MTD. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Perfect octagon quadrangle systems with upper C4-systemsLuigia Berardi | Mario Gionfriddo | Rosaria Rota
Volume 141, Issue 7, July 2011, Pages 2249-2255
An octagon quadrangle is the graph consisting of an 8-cycle (x1, x2,..., x8) with two additional chords: the edges {x1, x4} and {x5, x8}. An octagon quadrangle system of order v and index ρ [OQS] is a pair (X,H), where X is a finite set of v vertices and H is a collection of edge disjoint octagon quadrangles (called blocks) which partition the edge set of ρKv defined on X. An octagon quadrangle system σ=(X,H) of order v and index λ is said to be upper C4-perfect if the collection of all of the upper4-cycles contained in the octagon quadrangles form a γ-fold 4-cycle system of order v; it is said to be upper strongly perfect, if the collection of all of the upper4-cycles contained in the octagon quadrangles form a γ-fold 4-cycle system of order v and also the collection of all of the outside8-cycles contained in the octagon quadrangles form a r{cyrillic}-fold 8-cycle system of order v. In this paper, the authors determine the spectrum for these systems. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
On the robustness of maximum composite likelihood estimateXiming Xu | N. Reid
Volume 141, Issue 9, September 2011, Pages 3047-3054
Composite likelihood methods have been receiving growing interest in a number of different application areas, where the likelihood function is too cumbersome to be evaluated. In the present paper, some theoretical properties of the maximum composite likelihood estimate (MCLE) are investigated in more detail. Robustness of consistency of the MCLE is studied in a general setting, and clarified and illustrated through some simple examples. We also carry out a simulation study of the performance of the MCLE in a constructed model suggested by Arnold (2010) that is not multivariate normal, but has multivariate normal marginal distributions. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Clustering gene expression time course data using mixtures of multivariate t-distributionsPaul D. McNicholas | Sanjeena Subedi
Volume 142, Issue 5, May 2012, Pages 1114-1127
Clustering gene expression time course data is an important problem in bioinformatics because understanding which genes behave similarly can lead to the discovery of important biological information. Statistically, the problem of clustering time course data is a special case of the more general problem of clustering longitudinal data. In this paper, a very general and flexible model-based technique is used to cluster longitudinal data. Mixtures of multivariate t-distributions are utilized, with a linear model for the mean and a modified Cholesky-decomposed covariance structure. Constraints are placed upon the covariance structure, leading to a novel family of mixture models, including parsimonious models. In addition to model-based clustering, these models are also used for model-based classification, i.e., semi-supervised clustering. Parameters, including the component degrees of freedom, are estimated using an expectation-maximization algorithm and two different approaches to model selection are considered. The models are applied to simulated data to illustrate their efficacy; this includes a comparison with their Gaussian analogues-the use of these Gaussian analogues with a linear model for the mean is novel in itself. Our family of multivariate t mixture models is then applied to two real gene expression time course data sets and the results are discussed. We conclude with a summary, suggestions for future work, and a discussion about constraining the degrees of freedom parameter. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Mixtures of modified t-factor analyzers for model-based clustering, classification, and discriminant analysisJeffrey L. Andrews | Paul D. McNicholas
Volume 141, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 1479-1486
A novel family of mixture models is introduced based on modified t-factor analyzers. Modified factor analyzers were recently introduced within the Gaussian context and our work presents a more flexible and robust alternative. We introduce a family of mixtures of modified t-factor analyzers that uses this generalized version of the factor analysis covariance structure. We apply this family within three paradigms: model-based clustering; model-based classification; and model-based discriminant analysis. In addition, we apply the recently published Gaussian analogue to this family under the model-based classification and discriminant analysis paradigms for the first time. Parameter estimation is carried out within the alternating expectation-conditional maximization framework and the Bayesian information criterion is used for model selection. Two real data sets are used to compare our approach to other popular model-based approaches; in these comparisons, the chosen mixtures of modified t-factor analyzers model performs favourably. We conclude with a summary and suggestions for future work. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Control charts for attributes with maxima nominated samplesMohammad Jafari Jozani | Sayed Jamal Mirkamali
Volume 141, Issue 7, July 2011, Pages 2386-2398
We develop quality control charts for attributes using the maxima nomination sampling (MNS) method and compare them with the usual control charts based on simple random sampling (SRS) method, using average run length (ARL) performance, the required sample size in detecting quality improvement, and non-existence region for control limits. We study the effect of the sample size, the set size, and nonconformity proportion on the performance of MNS control charts using ARL curve. We show that MNS control chart can be used as a better benchmark for indicating quality improvement or quality deterioration relative to its SRS counterpart. We consider MNS charts from a cost perspective. We also develop MNS attribute control charts using randomized tests. A computer program is designed to determine the optimal control limits for an MNS p-chart such that, assuming known parameter values, the absolute deviation between the ARL and a specific nominal value is minimized. We provide good approximations for the optimal MNS control limits using regression analysis. Theoretical results are augmented with numerical evaluations. These show that MNS based control charts can yield substantial improvement over the usual control charts based on SRS. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
A general bootstrap algorithm for hypothesis testingPablo Martínez-Camblor | Norberto Corral
Volume 142, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 589-600
The bootstrap is a intensive computer-based method originally mainly devoted to estimate the standard deviations, confidence intervals and bias of the studied statistic. This technique is useful in a wide variety of statistical procedures, however, its use for hypothesis testing, when the data structure is complex, is not straightforward and each case must be particularly treated. A general bootstrap method for hypothesis testing is studied. The considered method preserves the data structure of each group independently and the null hypothesis is only used in order to compute the bootstrap statistic values (not at the resampling, as usual). The asymptotic distribution is developed and several case studies are discussed. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
On some mixture models based on the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and associated inferenceN. Balakrishnan | Ramesh C. Gupta | Debasis Kundu | Víctor Leiva | Antonio Sanhueza
Volume 141, Issue 7, July 2011, Pages 2175-2190
In this paper, we consider three different mixture models based on the Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) distribution, viz., (1) mixture of two different BS distributions, (2) mixture of a BS distribution and a length-biased version of another BS distribution, and (3) mixture of a BS distribution and its length-biased version. For all these models, we study their characteristics including the shape of their density and hazard rate functions. For the maximum likelihood estimation of the model parameters, we use the EM algorithm. For the purpose of illustration, we analyze two data sets related to enzyme and depressive condition problems. In the case of the enzyme data, it is shown that Model 1 provides the best fit, while for the depressive condition data, it is shown all three models fit well with Model 3 providing the best fit. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Bayesian inference and prediction of order statistics for a Type-II censored Weibull distributionDebasis Kundu | Mohammad Z. Raqab
Volume 142, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 41-47
This paper describes the Bayesian inference and prediction of the two-parameter Weibull distribution when the data are Type-II censored data. The aim of this paper is twofold. First we consider the Bayesian inference of the unknown parameters under different loss functions. The Bayes estimates cannot be obtained in closed form. We use Gibbs sampling procedure to draw Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samples and it has been used to compute the Bayes estimates and also to construct symmetric credible intervals. Further we consider the Bayes prediction of the future order statistics based on the observed sample. We consider the posterior predictive density of the future observations and also construct a predictive interval with a given coverage probability. Monte Carlo simulations are performed to compare different methods and one data analysis is performed for illustration purposes. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Computing optimal designs of multiresponse experiments reduces to second-order cone programmingGuillaume Sagnol
Volume 141, Issue 5, May 2011, Pages 1684-1708
Elfving's theorem is a major result in the theory of optimal experimental design, which gives a geometrical characterization of c-optimality. In this paper, we extend this theorem to the case of multiresponse experiments, and we show that when the number of experiments is finite, the c-,A-,T- and D-optimal design of multiresponse experiments can be computed by second-order cone programming (SOCP). Moreover, the present SOCP approach can deal with design problems in which the variable is subject to several linear constraints. We give two proofs of this generalization of Elfving's theorem. One is based on Lagrangian dualization techniques and relies on the fact that the semidefinite programming (SDP) formulation of the multiresponse c-optimal design always has a solution which is a matrix of rank 1. Therefore, the complexity of this problem fades. We also investigate a model robust generalization of c-optimality, for which an Elfving-type theorem was established by Dette (1993). We show with the same Lagrangian approach that these model robust designs can be computed efficiently by minimizing a geometric mean under some norm constraints. Moreover, we show that the optimality conditions of this geometric programming problem yield an extension of Dette's theorem to the case of multiresponse experiments. When the goal is to identify a small number of linear functions of the unknown parameter (typically for c-optimality), we show by numerical examples that the present approach can be between 10 and 1000 times faster than the classic, state-of-the-art algorithms. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Zero-inflated Poisson and negative binomial integer-valued GARCH modelsFukang Zhu
Volume 142, Issue 4, April 2012, Pages 826-839
Zero inflation means that the proportion of 0's of a model is greater than the proportion of 0's of the corresponding Poisson model, which is a common phenomenon in count data. To model the zero-inflated characteristic of time series of counts, we propose zero-inflated Poisson and negative binomial INGARCH models, which are useful and flexible generalizations of the Poisson and negative binomial INGARCH models, respectively. The stationarity conditions and the autocorrelation function are given. Based on the EM algorithm, the estimating procedure is simple and easy to be implemented. A simulation study shows that the estimation method is accurate and reliable as long as the sample size is reasonably large. A real data example leads to superior performance of the proposed models compared with other competitive models in the literature. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Kernel density estimation on the torusMarco Di Marzio | Agnese Panzera | Charles C. Taylor
Volume 141, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 2156-2173
Kernel density estimation for multivariate, circular data has been formulated only when the sample space is the sphere, but theory for the torus would also be useful. For data lying on a d-dimensional torus (d≥1), we discuss kernel estimation of a density, its mixed partial derivatives, and their squared functionals. We introduce a specific class of product kernels whose order is suitably defined in such a way to obtain L2-risk formulas whose structure can be compared to their Euclidean counterparts. Our kernels are based on circular densities; however, we also discuss smaller bias estimation involving negative kernels which are functions of circular densities. Practical rules for selecting the smoothing degree, based on cross-validation, bootstrap and plug-in ideas are derived. Moreover, we provide specific results on the use of kernels based on the von Mises density. Finally, real-data examples and simulation studies illustrate the findings. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Hierarchical Bayes estimation of spatial statistics for ratesMahmoud Torabi
Volume 142, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 358-365
The U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics publishes monthly unemployment rate estimates for its 50 states, the District of Columbia, and all counties, under Current Population Survey. However, the unemployment rate estimates for some states are unreliable due to low sample sizes in these states. Datta et al. (1999) proposed a hierarchical Bayes (HB) method using a time series generalization of a widely used cross-sectional model in small-area estimation. However, the geographical variation is also likely to be important. To have an efficient model, a comprehensive mixed normal model that accounts for the spatial and temporal effects is considered. A HB approach using Markov chain Monte Carlo is used for the analysis of the U.S. state-level unemployment rate estimates for January 2004-December 2007. The sensitivity of such type of analysis to prior assumptions in the Gaussian context is also studied. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Bootstrap in functional linear regressionWenceslao González-Manteiga | Adela Martínez-Calvo
Volume 141, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 453-461
We have considered the functional linear model with scalar response and functional explanatory variable. One of the most popular methodologies for estimating the model parameter is based on functional principal components analysis (FPCA). In recent literature, weak convergence for a wide class of FPCA-type estimates has been proved, and consequently asymptotic confidence sets can be built. In this paper, we have proposed an alternative approach in order to obtain pointwise confidence intervals by means of a bootstrap procedure, for which we have obtained its asymptotic validity. Besides, a simulation study allows us to compare the practical behaviour of asymptotic and bootstrap confidence intervals in terms of coverage rates for different sample sizes. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
An empirical likelihood ratio based goodness-of-fit test for Inverse Gaussian distributionsAlbert Vexler | Guogen Shan | Seongeun Kim | Wan Min Tsai | Lili Tian | Alan D. Hutson
Volume 141, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 2128-2140
The Inverse Gaussian (IG) distribution is commonly introduced to model and examine right skewed data having positive support. When applying the IG model, it is critical to develop efficient goodness-of-fit tests. In this article, we propose a new test statistic for examining the IG goodness-of-fit based on approximating parametric likelihood ratios. The parametric likelihood ratio methodology is well-known to provide powerful likelihood ratio tests. In the nonparametric context, the classical empirical likelihood (EL) ratio method is often applied in order to efficiently approximate properties of parametric likelihoods, using an approach based on substituting empirical distribution functions for their population counterparts. The optimal parametric likelihood ratio approach is however based on density functions. We develop and analyze the EL ratio approach based on densities in order to test the IG model fit. We show that the proposed test is an improvement over the entropy-based goodness-of-fit test for IG presented by Mudholkar and Tian (2002). Theoretical support is obtained by proving consistency of the new test and an asymptotic proposition regarding the null distribution of the proposed test statistic. Monte Carlo simulations confirm the powerful properties of the proposed method. Real data examples demonstrate the applicability of the density-based EL ratio goodness-of-fit test for an IG assumption in practice. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Inference for Weibull distribution based on progressively Type-II hybrid censored dataElham Bayat Mokhtari | A. Habibi Rad | F. Yousefzadeh
Volume 141, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 2824-2838
Progressive Type-II hybrid censoring is a mixture of progressive Type-II and hybrid censoring schemes. In this paper, we discuss the statistical inference on Weibull parameters when the observed data are progressively Type-II hybrid censored. We derive the maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) and the approximate maximum likelihood estimators (AMLEs) of the Weibull parameters. We then use the asymptotic distributions of the maximum likelihood estimators to construct approximate confidence intervals. Bayes estimates and the corresponding highest posterior density credible intervals of the unknown parameters are obtained under suitable priors on the unknown parameters and also by using the Gibbs sampling procedure. Monte Carlo simulations are then performed for comparing the confidence intervals based on all those different methods. Finally, one data set is analyzed for illustrative purposes. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Fiducial prediction intervalsC. M. Wang | Jan Hannig | Hari K. Iyer
Volume 142, Issue 7, July 2012, Pages 1980-1990
This paper presents an approach for constructing prediction intervals for any given distribution. The approach is based on the principle of fiducial inference. We use several examples, including the normal, binomial, exponential, gamma, and Weibull distributions, to illustrate the proposed procedure. © 2012 .
Rates of strong consistencies of the regression function estimator for functional stationary ergodic dataNaâmane Laib | Djamal Louani
Volume 141, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 359-372
The aim of this paper is to study both the pointwise and uniform consistencies of the kernel regression estimate and to derive also rates of convergence whenever functional stationary ergodic data are considered. More precisely, in the ergodic data setting, we consider the regression of a real random variable Y over an explanatory random variable X taking values in some semi-metric separable abstract space. While estimating the regression function using the well-known Nadaraya-Watson estimator, we establish the strong pointwise and uniform consistencies with rates. Depending on the Vapnik-Chervonenkis size of the class over which uniformity is considered, the pointwise rate of convergence may be reached in the uniform case. Notice, finally, that the ergodic data framework extends the dependence setting to cases that are not covered by the usual mixing structures. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.


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