Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Isotonic Normal Means with Unknown Variances

Ning-Zhong Shi and Hua Jiang

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 1998, vol. 64, issue 2, 183-195

Abstract: To analyze the isotonic regression problem for normal means, it is usual to assume that all variances are known or unknown but equal. This paper then studies this problem in the case that there are no conditions imposed on the variances. Suppose that we have data drawn fromkindependent normal populations with unknown means[mu]i's and unknown variances[sigma]2i's, in which the means are restricted by a given partial ordering. This paper discusses some properties of the maximum likelihood estimates of[mu]i's and[sigma]2i's under the restriction and proposes an algorithm for obtaining the estimates.

Keywords: isotonic regression; partial order; restricted maximum likelihood estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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