R-estimates vs. GMM: a theoretical case study of validity and efficiency

DOI10.1214/088342305000000278zbMATH Open1246.62089arXivmath/0701087OpenAlexW2068485810MaRDI QIDQ449734FDOQ449734

Authors: Abba M. Krieger, Dylan S. Small, Joseph L. Gastwirth, Paul R. Rosenbaum 

Publication date: 1 September 2012

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: What role should assumptions play in inference? We present a small theoretical case study of a simple, clean case, namely the nonparametric comparison of two continuous distributions using (essentially) information about quartiles, that is, the central information displayed in a pair of boxplots. In particular, we contrast a suggestion of John Tukey--that the validity of inferences should not depend on assumptions, but assumptions have a role in efficiency--with a competing suggestion that is an aspect of Hansen's generalized method of moments--that methods should achieve maximum asymptotic efficiency with fewer assumptions. In our case study, the practical performance of these two suggestions is strikingly different. An aspect of this comparison concerns the unification or separation of the tasks of estimation assuming a model and testing the fit of that model. We also look at a method (MERT) that aims not at best performance, but rather at achieving reasonable performance across a set of plausible models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701087

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zbMATH Keywords

generalized method of momentspermutation testrobustnessattributable effectsgroup rank testHodges-Lehmann estimateMERT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10)

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