M‐estimation Under a Two‐Sample Semiparametric Model

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The author considers data which consist of two i.i.d. samples \(X_1\),\dots, \(X_{n_0}\sim g(x)\), \(Z_1\),\dots, \(Z_{n_1}\sim h(x)=\exp[\alpha+r(x)\beta]g(x)\), where \(g(x)\) is the PDF of some unknown distribution, \(r(x)\) is a \(p\)-dimensional vector of known functions, and \(\alpha\) and \(\beta=(\beta_1,\dots,\beta_p)^T\) are unknown parameters. The problem is to estimate some unknown parameter \(\vartheta=\vartheta(G)\). It is proposed to use a two-stage estimation procedure. At the first stage \(G\), \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are estimated by an empirical maximum likelihood estimator \(\tilde G_n\), \(\tilde\alpha_n\), \(\tilde\beta_n\) (\(n=n_0+n_1\)). At the second stage \(\vartheta\) is estimated by some M-estimator as a solution of the estimating equation \( \int\psi(x,\vartheta)d\tilde G_n(x)=0 \), where \(\psi\) is a function such that \( \int\psi(x,\vartheta_0)d G(x)=0 \) for the true value of the parameter \(\vartheta_0=\vartheta(G)\). Consistency and asymptotic normality of these estimators are demonstrated. It is shown that they are more efficient (asymptotically) than M-estimators constructed by \(X_i\) only. A plug-in estimator for the limit variance is constructed and its consistency is demonstrated. Simulation results are presented.











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