October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
12h 24m
English
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Nonparametric Statistics with Applications to Science and Engineering with R, 2nd Edition
by Paul Kvam, Brani Vidakovic, Seong-joon Kim
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10Estimating Distribution Functions
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.
John Seely Brown (1997), former Chief Scientist at Xerox Corporation
10.1 Introduction
Let 
be a sample from a population with continuous cumulative distribution function (CDF) 
In Chapter 3, we defined the empirical (cumulative) distribution function (EDF) based on a random sample as
Because 
, for a fixed 
, has a sampling distribution directly related to the binomial distribution, its properties are readily apparent, and it is easy to work with as an estimating function.
The EDF provides a sound estimator for the CDF, but not through any methodology that can be extended to general estimation problems in nonparametric statistics. For example, what if the sample is right truncated? Or censored? What if the sample observations are not independent or identically distributed? In standard statistical analysis, the method of maximum likelihood ...
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