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- Nabarun Deb
- Sujayam Saha
- Adityanand Guntuboyina
- Bodhisattva Sen
Abstract
In this article, we study a generalization of the two-groups model in the presence of covariates—a problem that has recently received much attention in the statistical literature due to its applicability in multiple hypotheses testing problems. The model we consider allows for infinite dimensional parameters and offers flexibility in modeling the dependence of the response on the covariates. We discuss the identifiability issues arising in this model and systematically study several estimation strategies. We propose a tuning parameter-free nonparametric maximum likelihood method, implementable via the expectation-maximization algorithm, to estimate the unknown parameters. Further, we derive the rate of convergence of the proposed estimators—in particular we show that the finite sample Hellinger risk for every ‘approximate’ nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator achieves a near-parametric rate (up to logarithmic multiplicative factors). In addition, we propose and theoretically study two ‘marginal’ methods that are more scalable and easily implementable. We demonstrate the efficacy of our procedures through extensive simulation studies and relevant data analyses—one arising from neuroscience and the other from astronomy. We also outline the application of our methods to multiple testing. The companion R package NPMLEmix implements all the procedures proposed in this article.
Suggested Citation
Nabarun Deb & Sujayam Saha & Adityanand Guntuboyina & Bodhisattva Sen, 2022.
"Two-Component Mixture Model in the Presence of Covariates,"
Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 117(540), pages 1820-1834, October.
Handle:
RePEc:taf:jnlasa:v:117:y:2022:i:540:p:1820-1834
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2021.1888739
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