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The Extended Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Monotone Probability Mass Function with Application using Forensic Data

Ma, Tiancheng LU (2022) In Bachelor's Theses in Mathematical Sciences MASK11 20211
Mathematical Statistics
Abstract
This paper presents solutions to the modelling of frequency data of species labels, but the data is incomplete in the sense that some rarely-occurring species labels give zero observed frequency. The data can be modelled by a monotone probability function with parameters to be estimated, and yet, due to the order constraints and the incomplete data, using conventional parameter estimation methods will cause trouble. Therefore, we study a previously introduced method to resolve the issue.

We begin with a brief tour through the attempts of parameter estimation, starting with the estimators which lead to problematic situations when using them. After that, we will study the improved estimation introduced in [1], which resolves the problem.... (More)
This paper presents solutions to the modelling of frequency data of species labels, but the data is incomplete in the sense that some rarely-occurring species labels give zero observed frequency. The data can be modelled by a monotone probability function with parameters to be estimated, and yet, due to the order constraints and the incomplete data, using conventional parameter estimation methods will cause trouble. Therefore, we study a previously introduced method to resolve the issue.

We begin with a brief tour through the attempts of parameter estimation, starting with the estimators which lead to problematic situations when using them. After that, we will study the improved estimation introduced in [1], which resolves the problem.

The improved estimation method seems to perform well when dealing with the problem, and it may be especially useful in the fields of forensic science, zoology, medical science, business analytic and even several fields of machine learning. (Less)
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author
Ma, Tiancheng LU
supervisor
organization
course
MASK11 20211
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Statistical Inference Statistics Maximum Likelihood Estimation Non-parametric Estimation
publication/series
Bachelor's Theses in Mathematical Sciences
report number
LUNFMS-4063-2022
ISSN
1654-6229
other publication id
2022:K3
language
English
additional info
The printed version incorrectly states the Publication ID 2022:K2. The correct Publication ID is 2022:K3.

Anders Dunkler
Library of Mathematics
2022-03-09
id
9076375
date added to LUP
2022-03-03 14:36:09
date last changed
2022-03-09 15:05:46
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  abstract     = {{This paper presents solutions to the modelling of frequency data of species labels, but the data is incomplete in the sense that some rarely-occurring species labels give zero observed frequency. The data can be modelled by a monotone probability function with parameters to be estimated, and yet, due to the order constraints and the incomplete data, using conventional parameter estimation methods will cause trouble. Therefore, we study a previously introduced method to resolve the issue. 

We begin with a brief tour through the attempts of parameter estimation, starting with the estimators which lead to problematic situations when using them. After that, we will study the improved estimation introduced in [1], which resolves the problem.

The improved estimation method seems to perform well when dealing with the problem, and it may be especially useful in the fields of forensic science, zoology, medical science, business analytic and even several fields of machine learning.}},
  author       = {{Ma, Tiancheng}},
  issn         = {{1654-6229}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{Bachelor's Theses in Mathematical Sciences}},
  title        = {{The Extended Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Monotone Probability Mass Function with Application using Forensic Data}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}