Estimating the number of classes

DOI10.1214/009053606000001280zbMATH Open1117.62045arXiv0708.2153OpenAlexW2136928476MaRDI QIDQ995434FDOQ995434

Authors: Chang Xuan Mao, Bruce G. Lindsay 

Publication date: 3 September 2007

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Estimating the unknown number of classes in a population has numerous important applications. In a Poisson mixture model, the problem is reduced to estimating the odds that a class is undetected in a sample. The discontinuity of the odds prevents the existence of locally unbiased and informative estimators and restricts confidence intervals to be one-sided. Confidence intervals for the number of classes are also necessarily one-sided. A sequence of lower bounds to the odds is developed and used to define pseudo maximum likelihood estimators for the number of classes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2153

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zbMATH Keywords

Hankel matrixmoment problemone-sided inference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15)

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