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Estimation procedures for grouped data – a comparative study

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  • Xun Xiao
  • Amitava Mukherjee
  • Min Xie

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Interval-censored data are very common in the reliability and lifetime data analysis. This paper investigates the performance of different estimation procedures for a special type of interval-censored data, i.e. grouped data, from three widely used lifetime distributions. The approaches considered here include the maximum likelihood estimation, the minimum distance estimation based on chi-square criterion, the moment estimation based on imputation (IM) method and an ad hoc estimation procedure. Although IM-based techniques are extensively used recently, we show that this method is not always effective. It is found that the ad hoc estimation procedure is equivalent to the minimum distance estimation with another distance metric and more effective in the simulation. The procedures of different approaches are presented and their performances are investigated by Monte Carlo simulation for various combinations of sample sizes and parameter settings. The numerical results provide guidelines to analyse grouped data for practitioners when they need to choose a good estimation approach.

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  • Xun Xiao & Amitava Mukherjee & Min Xie, 2016. "Estimation procedures for grouped data – a comparative study," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(11), pages 2110-2130, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:43:y:2016:i:11:p:2110-2130
    DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2015.1130801
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