Likelihood based inference for monotone response models

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Abstract: The behavior of maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) and the likelihood ratio statistic in a family of problems involving pointwise nonparametric estimation of a monotone function is studied. This class of problems differs radically from the usual parametric or semiparametric situations in that the MLE of the monotone function at a point converges to the truth at rate n1/3 (slower than the usual sqrtn rate) with a non-Gaussian limit distribution. A framework for likelihood based estimation of monotone functions is developed and limit theorems describing the behavior of the MLEs and the likelihood ratio statistic are established. In particular, the likelihood ratio statistic is found to be asymptotically pivotal with a limit distribution that is no longer chi2 but can be explicitly characterized in terms of a functional of Brownian motion. Applications of the main results are presented and potential extensions discussed.





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