New Advances in Statistics and Econometrics

A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "Probability and Statistics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 2742

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA
Interests: machine learning; deep learning; biostatistics; bioinformatics; genetic epidemiology; nonparametric and semi-parametric methods; econometrics; financial statistics; prediction; agricultural statistics; computer vision; statistical inference; statistical applications
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Hudson College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
Interests: missing data analysis; survey sampling; empirical likelihood; machine learning methods; causal inference; biostatistics; American Indian health disparities; tobacco research; cancer prevention and control
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Dr. Sixia Chen
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Keywords

  • machine learning and deep learning
  • biostatistics
  • bioinformatics
  • econometrics
  • health statistics
  • financial statistics
  • financial markets
  • next-generation sequencing data analysis
  • statistical genetics
  • association studies
  • computational statistics
  • image analysis and computer vision
  • survey sampling
  • novel statistical methods with applications
  • novel econometric methods with applications

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The Concavity of Conditional Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Logit Panel Data Models with Imputed Covariates
by Opeyo Peter Otieno and Weihu Cheng
Mathematics 2023, 11(20), 4338; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11204338 - 18 Oct 2023
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In estimating logistic regression models, convergence of the maximization algorithm is critical; however, this may fail. Numerous bias correction methods for maximum likelihood estimates of parameters have been conducted for cases of complete data sets, and also for longitudinal models. Balanced data sets [...] Read more.
In estimating logistic regression models, convergence of the maximization algorithm is critical; however, this may fail. Numerous bias correction methods for maximum likelihood estimates of parameters have been conducted for cases of complete data sets, and also for longitudinal models. Balanced data sets yield consistent estimates from conditional logit estimators for binary response panel data models. When faced with a missing covariates problem, researchers adopt various imputation techniques to complete the data and without loss of generality; consistent estimates still suffice asymptotically. For maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters for logistic regression in cases of imputed covariates, the optimal choice of an imputation technique that yields the best estimates with minimum variance is still elusive. This paper aims to examine the behaviour of the Hessian matrix with optimal values of the imputed covariates vector, which will make the Newton–Raphson algorithm converge faster through a reduced absolute value of the product of the score function and the inverse fisher information component. We focus on a method used to modify the conditional likelihood function through the partitioning of the covariate matrix. We also confirm that the positive moduli of the Hessian for conditional estimators are sufficient for the concavity of the log-likelihood function, resulting in optimum parameter estimates. An increased Hessian modulus ensures the faster convergence of the parameter estimates. Simulation results reveal that model-based imputations perform better than classical imputation techniques, yielding estimates with smaller bias and higher precision for the conditional maximum likelihood estimation of nonlinear panel models. Full article
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