Semiparametric modelling of two-component mixtures with stochastic dominance

Jingjing Wu (), Tasnima Abedin and Qiang Zhao
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Jingjing Wu: University of Calgary
Tasnima Abedin: Alberta Health Services
Qiang Zhao: Shandong Normal University

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 2023, vol. 75, issue 1, No 3, 39-70

Abstract: Abstract In this work, we studied a two-component mixture model with stochastic dominance constraint, a model arising naturally from many genetic studies. To model the stochastic dominance, we proposed a semiparametric modelling of the log of density ratio. More specifically, when the log of the ratio of two component densities is in a linear regression form, the stochastic dominance is immediately satisfied. For the resulting semiparametric mixture model, we proposed two estimators, maximum empirical likelihood estimator (MELE) and minimum Hellinger distance estimator (MHDE), and investigated their asymptotic properties such as consistency and normality. In addition, to test the validity of the proposed semiparametric model, we developed Kolmogorov–Smirnov type tests based on the two estimators. The finite-sample performance, in terms of both efficiency and robustness, of the two estimators and the tests were examined and compared via both thorough Monte Carlo simulation studies and real data analysis.

Keywords: Two-component semiparametric mixture model; Stochastic dominance; Maximum empirical likelihood estimator; Minimum Hellinger distance estimator; Asymptotic normality and robustness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s10463-022-00835-5

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