The bivariate current status model

DOI10.1214/13-EJS824zbMATH Open1294.62062arXiv1209.0542MaRDI QIDQ351690FDOQ351690

Authors: Piet Groeneboom 

Publication date: 9 July 2013

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For the univariate current status and, more generally, the interval censoring model, distribution theory has been developed for the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) and smoothed maximum likelihood estimator (SMLE) of the unknown distribution function, see, e.g., [12], [7], [4], [5], [6], [10], [11] and [8]. For the bivariate current status and interval censoring models distribution theory of this type is still absent and even the rate at which we can expect reasonable estimators to converge is unknown. We define a purely discrete plug-in estimator of the distribution function which locally converges at rate n^{1/3} and derive its (normal) limit distribution. Unlike the MLE or SMLE, this estimator is not a proper distribution function. Since the estimator is purely discrete, it demonstrates that the n^{1/3} convergence rate is in principle possible for the MLE, but whether this actually holds for the MLE is still an open problem. If the cube root n rate holds for the MLE, this would mean that the local 1-dimensional rate of the MLE continues to hold in dimension 2, a (perhaps) somewhat surprising result. The simulation results do not seem to be in contradiction with this assumption, however. We compare the behavior of the plug-in estimator with the behavior of the MLE on a sieve and the SMLE in a simulation study. This indicates that the plug-in estimator and the SMLE have a smaller variance but a larger bias than the sieved MLE. The SMLE is conjectured to have a n^{1/3}-rate of convergence if we use bandwidths of order n^{-1/6}. We derive its (normal) limit distribution, using this assumption. Finally, we demonstrate the behavior of the MLE and SMLE for the bivariate interval censored data of [1], which have been discussed by many authors, see e.g., [18], [3], [2] and [15].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0542

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic distributionmaximum likelihood estimatorsbivariate current statusbivariate interval censoringcube root \(n\) estimationmaximum smoothed likelihood estimators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Censored data models (62N01) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12)

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