Empirical likelihood for random sets

Karun Adusumilli and Taisuke Otsu

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Abstract: In many statistical applications, the observed data take the form of sets rather than points. Examples include bracket data in survey analysis, tumor growth and rock grain images in morphology analysis, and noisy measurements on the support function of a convex set in medical imaging and robotic vision. Additionally, in studies of treatment effects, researchers often wish to conduct inference on nonparametric bounds for the effects which can be expressed by means of random sets. This article develops the concept of nonparametric likelihood for random sets and its mean, known as the Aumann expectation, and proposes general inference methods by adapting the theory of empirical likelihood. Several examples, such as regression with bracket income data, Boolean models for tumor growth, bound analysis on treatment effects, and image analysis via support functions, illustrate the usefulness of the proposed methods. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Keywords: empirical likelihood; random set; treatment effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04-12
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Published in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 12, April, 2017, 112(519), pp. 1064 - 1075. ISSN: 0162-1459

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Related works:
Journal Article: Empirical Likelihood for Random Sets (2017)
Working Paper: Empirical Likelihood for Random Sets (2014)
Working Paper: Empirical likelihood for random sets (2014)
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