The Alpha Power Gompertz Distribution: Characterization, Properties, and ApplicationsSankhya A - Tập 83 - Trang 449-475 - 2020
Joseph Thomas Eghwerido, Lawrence Chukwudumebi Nzei, Friday Ikechukwu Agu
A new three-parameter model called the Alpha power Gompertz is derived, studied and proposed for modeling lifetime Poisson processes. The advantage of the new model is that, it has left skew, decreasing, unimodal density with a bathtub shaped hazard rate function. The statistical structural properties of the proposed model such as probability weighted moments, moments, order statistics, entropies,...... hiện toàn bộ
Posterior Contraction Rates for Stochastic Block ModelsSankhya A - Tập 82 - Trang 448-476 - 2019
Prasenjit Ghosh, Debdeep Pati, Anirban Bhattacharya
With the advent of structured data in the form of social networks, genetic circuits and protein interaction networks, statistical analysis of networks has gained popularity over recent years. The stochastic block model constitutes a classical cluster-exhibiting random graph model for networks. There is a substantial amount of literature devoted to proposing strategies for estimating and inferring ...... hiện toàn bộ
Gibbs sampling, conjugate priors and couplingSankhya A - Tập 72 - Trang 136-169 - 2010
Persi Diaconis, Kshitij Khare, Laurent Saloff-Coste
We give a large family of simple examples where a sharp analysis of the Gibbs sampler can be proved by coupling. These examples involve standard statistical models — exponential families with conjugate priors or location families with natural priors. Our main approach uses a single eigenfunction (always explicitly available in the examples in question) and stochastic monotonicity. We give a satisf...... hiện toàn bộ
On the use of antithetic variables to improve over the ranked set sampling estimator of the population meanSankhya A - Tập 73 - Trang 142-161 - 2011
Mohammad Jafari Jozani, François Perron
In the ranked set sampling algorithm a sample of size n
2 is available. The data can be ranked without measurements. A subsample of size n is created using the information given by the ranks. The population mean is estimated by the subsample mean. In this paper, we investigate other ways for creating the subsample. To this end we introduce new sampling algorithms using the ...... hiện toàn bộ
Skorohod representation theorem via disintegrationsSankhya A - Tập 72 - Trang 208-220 - 2010
Patrizia Berti, Luca Pratelli, Pietro Rigo
Let (µ
n
: n ≥ 0) be Borel probabilities on a metric space S such that µ
n
→ µ0 weakly. Say that Skorohod representation holds if, on some probability space, there are S-valued random variables X
n
satisfying X
n
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Moment matching priorsSankhya A - - 2012
Malay Ghosh, Ruitao Liu
There are various proposals for the selection of the so-called “objective” or “default” priors in Bayesian analysis. The paper introduces a new criterion, the moment matching criterion, which requires the matching of the posterior mean with the maximum likelihood estimator up to a high order of approximation. A complete characterization of such priors in the one or multi-parameter case is provided...... hiện toàn bộ
Asymptotic Inferences in a Doubly-Semi-Parametric Linear Longitudinal Mixed ModelSankhya A - Tập 85 - Trang 214-247 - 2021
Brajendra C. Sutradhar, R. Prabhakar Rao
Warriyar and Sutradhar (Brazilian J. Probab. Stat., 28, 561–586, 2014) studied a semi-parametric linear model in a longitudinal setup with Gaussian errors, where the main regression parameters were estimated using an efficient GQL (generalized quasi-likelihood) estimation approach, and the efficiency properties of the estimators were examined through a simulation study. In this paper we provide a ...... hiện toàn bộ