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For mixed-type tests composed of both dichotomous and polytomous items, polytomous items often yield more information than dichotomous ones. To reflect the difference between the two types of items, polytomous items are usually pre-assigned with larger weights. We propose an item-weighted...
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In some biological experiments, it is quite common that laboratory subjects differ in their patterns of susceptibility to a treatment. Finite mixture models are useful in those situations. In this paper we model the number of components and the component parameters jointly, and base inference...
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One of the most powerful algorithms for maximum likelihood estimation for many incomplete-data problems is the EM algorithm. The restricted EM algorithm for maximum likelihood estimation under linear restrictions on the parameters has been handled by Kim and Taylor (J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 430...
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Regression analysis of the odds ratios for sparse data has received a lot of attention. However, existing works are restricted to the parametric case, and a parametric model may be a misspecification, which may lead to biased and inefficient estimators. Little attention is received for...
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type="main" xml:id="sjos12057-abs-0001" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title>Motivated by an entropy inequality, we propose for the first time a penalized profile likelihood method for simultaneously selecting significant variables and estimating unknown coefficients in multiple linear regression models in this article. The...
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Generalized iterative scaling (GIS) has become a popular method for getting the maximum likelihood estimates for log-linear models. It is basically a sequence of successive I-projections onto sets of probability vectors with some given linear combinations of probability vectors. However, when a...
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