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A partitioned quasi-likelihood for distributed statistical inference

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  • Guangbao Guo

    (Shandong University of Technology)

  • Yue Sun

    (Shandong University of Technology)

  • Xuejun Jiang

    (Southern University of Science and Technology)

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In the big data setting, working data sets are often distributed on multiple machines. However, classical statistical methods are often developed to solve the problems of single estimation or inference. We employ a novel parallel quasi-likelihood method in generalized linear models, to make the variances between different sub-estimators relatively similar. Estimates are obtained from projection subsets of data and later combined by suitably-chosen unknown weights. We also show the proposed method to produce better asymptotic efficiency than using the simple average. Furthermore, simulation examples show that the proposed method can significantly improve statistical inference.

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  • Guangbao Guo & Yue Sun & Xuejun Jiang, 2020. "A partitioned quasi-likelihood for distributed statistical inference," Computational Statistics, Springer, vol. 35(4), pages 1577-1596, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:compst:v:35:y:2020:i:4:d:10.1007_s00180-020-00974-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s00180-020-00974-4
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