Estimation of Beta-Pareto Distribution Based on Several Optimization Methods

Badreddine Boumaraf, Nacira Seddik-Ameur and Vlad Stefan Barbu
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Badreddine Boumaraf: Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Souk-Ahras, Souk Ahras 41000, Algeria
Nacira Seddik-Ameur: Laboratory of Probability and Statistics LaPS, University of Badji Mokhtar of Annaba, Annaba 23000, Algeria
Vlad Stefan Barbu: Laboratory of Mathematics Raphaël Salem, University of Rouen-Normandy, 76801 Saint Étienne du Rouvray, France

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 7, 1-22

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the maximum likelihood estimators of the Beta-Pareto distribution introduced in Akinsete et al. (2008), which comes from the mixing of two probability distributions, Beta and Pareto. Since these estimators cannot be obtained explicitly, we use nonlinear optimization methods that numerically provide these estimators. The methods we investigate are the method of Newton-Raphson, the gradient method and the conjugate gradient method. Note that for the conjugate gradient method we use the model of Fletcher-Reeves. The corresponding algorithms are developed and the performances of the methods used are confirmed by an important simulation study. In order to compare between several concurrent models, namely generalized Beta-Pareto, Beta, Pareto, Gamma and Beta-Pareto, model criteria selection are used. We firstly consider completely observed data and, secondly, the observations are assumed to be right censored and we derive the same type of results.

Keywords: maximum likelihood estimators; nonlinear optimization methods; Beta-Pareto distribution; Beta distribution; Pareto distribution; model selection; right-censored data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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