Download or read book Nonparametric Econometrics written by Qi Li and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-09 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, up-to-date textbook on nonparametric methods for students and researchers Until now, students and researchers in nonparametric and semiparametric statistics and econometrics have had to turn to the latest journal articles to keep pace with these emerging methods of economic analysis. Nonparametric Econometrics fills a major gap by gathering together the most up-to-date theory and techniques and presenting them in a remarkably straightforward and accessible format. The empirical tests, data, and exercises included in this textbook help make it the ideal introduction for graduate students and an indispensable resource for researchers. Nonparametric and semiparametric methods have attracted a great deal of attention from statisticians in recent decades. While the majority of existing books on the subject operate from the presumption that the underlying data is strictly continuous in nature, more often than not social scientists deal with categorical data—nominal and ordinal—in applied settings. The conventional nonparametric approach to dealing with the presence of discrete variables is acknowledged to be unsatisfactory. This book is tailored to the needs of applied econometricians and social scientists. Qi Li and Jeffrey Racine emphasize nonparametric techniques suited to the rich array of data types—continuous, nominal, and ordinal—within one coherent framework. They also emphasize the properties of nonparametric estimators in the presence of potentially irrelevant variables. Nonparametric Econometrics covers all the material necessary to understand and apply nonparametric methods for real-world problems.

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Download or read book Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis written by Bernard. W. Silverman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1986-04-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there has been a surge of interest in density estimation in recent years, much of the published research has been concerned with purely technical matters with insufficient emphasis given to the technique's practical value. Furthermore, the subject has been rather inaccessible to the general statistician. The account presented in this book places emphasis on topics of methodological importance, in the hope that this will facilitate broader practical application of density estimation and also encourage research into relevant theoretical work. The book also provides an introduction to the subject for those with general interests in statistics. The important role of density estimation as a graphical technique is reflected by the inclusion of more than 50 graphs and figures throughout the text. Several contexts in which density estimation can be used are discussed, including the exploration and presentation of data, nonparametric discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, simulation and the bootstrap, bump hunting, projection pursuit, and the estimation of hazard rates and other quantities that depend on the density. This book includes general survey of methods available for density estimation. The Kernel method, both for univariate and multivariate data, is discussed in detail, with particular emphasis on ways of deciding how much to smooth and on computation aspects. Attention is also given to adaptive methods, which smooth to a greater degree in the tails of the distribution, and to methods based on the idea of penalized likelihood.

Download or read book Nonparametric Density Estimation written by Luc Devroye and published by New York ; Toronto : Wiley. This book was released on 1985-01-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a rigorous, systematic treatment of density estimates, their construction, use and analysis with full proofs. It develops L1 theory, rather than the classical L2, showing how L1 exposes fundamental properties of density estimates masked by L2.

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Download or read book Density Ratio Estimation in Machine Learning written by Masashi Sugiyama and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces theories, methods and applications of density ratio estimation, a newly emerging paradigm in the machine learning community.

Download or read book BONUS Algorithm for Large Scale Stochastic Nonlinear Programming Problems written by Urmila Diwekar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the details of the BONUS algorithm and its real world applications in areas like sensor placement in large scale drinking water networks, sensor placement in advanced power systems, water management in power systems, and capacity expansion of energy systems. A generalized method for stochastic nonlinear programming based on a sampling based approach for uncertainty analysis and statistical reweighting to obtain probability information is demonstrated in this book. Stochastic optimization problems are difficult to solve since they involve dealing with optimization and uncertainty loops. There are two fundamental approaches used to solve such problems. The first being the decomposition techniques and the second method identifies problem specific structures and transforms the problem into a deterministic nonlinear programming problem. These techniques have significant limitations on either the objective function type or the underlying distributions for the uncertain variables. Moreover, these methods assume that there are a small number of scenarios to be evaluated for calculation of the probabilistic objective function and constraints. This book begins to tackle these issues by describing a generalized method for stochastic nonlinear programming problems. This title is best suited for practitioners, researchers and students in engineering, operations research, and management science who desire a complete understanding of the BONUS algorithm and its applications to the real world.

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Download or read book Nonparametric Density Estimation written by Luc Devroye and published by New York ; Toronto : Wiley. This book was released on 1985-01-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a rigorous, systematic treatment of density estimates, their construction, use and analysis with full proofs. It develops L1 theory, rather than the classical L2, showing how L1 exposes fundamental properties of density estimates masked by L2.

Download or read book Probability Distributions Used in Reliability Engineering written by Andrew N O'Connor and published by RIAC. This book was released on 2011 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides details on 22 probability distributions. Each distribution section provides a graphical visualization and formulas for distribution parameters, along with distribution formulas. Common statistics such as moments and percentile formulas are followed by likelihood functions and in many cases the derivation of maximum likelihood estimates. Bayesian non-informative and conjugate priors are provided followed by a discussion on the distribution characteristics and applications in reliability engineering.