Combining envelope methodology and aster models for variance reduction in life history analyses

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2019.08.002zbMATH Open1437.62196arXiv1701.07910OpenAlexW2971589885MaRDI QIDQ2301062FDOQ2301062

Charles J. Geyer, R. Dennis Cook, Daniel J. Eck

Publication date: 28 February 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Precise estimation of expected Darwinian fitness, the expected lifetime number of offspring of organism, is a central component of life history analysis. The aster model serves as a defensible statistical model for distributions of Darwinian fitness. The aster model is equipped to incorporate the major life stages an organism travels through which separately may effect Darwinian fitness. Envelope methodology reduces asymptotic variability by establishing a link between unknown parameters of interest and the asymptotic covariance matrices of their estimators. It is known both theoretically and in applications that incorporation of envelope methodology reduces asymptotic variability. We develop an envelope framework, including a new envelope estimator, that is appropriate for aster analyses. The level of precision provided from our methods allows researchers to draw stronger conclusions about the driving forces of Darwinian fitness from their life history analyses than they could with the aster model alone. Our methods are illustrated on a simulated dataset and a life history analysis of emph{Mimulus guttatus} flowers is provided. Useful variance reduction is obtained in both analyses.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07910

zbMATH Keywords

parametric bootstrapfitness landscapeDarwinian fitnessenvelope model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bootstrap, jackknife and other resampling methods (62F40) Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Reliability and life testing (62N05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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Cited In (3)

• Model-based clustering with envelopes
• Frequentist model averaging for envelope models
• General model-free weighted envelope estimation

Uses Software

• aster
• aster2
• envlpaster

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