The paper studies the properties of a sequential maximum likelihood estimator of the drift parameter in a one dimensional reflected Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We observe the process until the observed Fisher information reaches a specified precision level. We derive the explicit formulas for the sequential estimator and its mean squared error. The estimator is shown to be unbiased and uniforml...

In this paper, we present that how much the variances of the classical estimators, namely, maximum likelihood estimator and moment estimator deviate from the minimum variance bound while estimating for the Maxwell distribution. We also sketch this difference for the negative integer moment estimator. We note the poor performance of the negative integer moment estimator in the said consideration...

for an unknown vector of parameters β0 and an unknown univariate function τ(·). This model is implied by many important limited dependent variable and regression models, as discussed in Ruud (1986) and Stoker (1986). Consistent estimators for β0, up to an unknown scale factor, have been developed by Ruud (1986), Stoker (1986), Powell, Stock, and Stoker (1989), Ichimura (1993), and others. In th...

In a finite mixture of location-scale distributions maximum likelihood estimator does not exist because of the unboundedness of the likelihood function when the scale parameter of some mixture component approaches zero. In order to study the strong consistency of maximum likelihood estimator, we consider the case that the scale parameters of the component distributions are restricted from below...

(ABSTRACT) Robust estimation methods have been successfully applied to the problem of power system state estimation in a real-time environment. The Schweppe-type GM-estimator with the Huber psi-function (SHGM) has been fully installed in conjunction with a topology processor in the EEF utility, headquartered in Fribourg, Switzerland. Some basic concepts of maximum likelihood estimation and robu...

In this paper, we study the approximation and estimation of s-concave densities via Rényi divergence. We first show that the approximation of a probability measure Q by an s-concave density exists and is unique via the procedure of minimizing a divergence functional proposed by [Ann. Statist.38 (2010) 2998-3027] if and only if Q admits full-dimensional support and a first moment. We also show c...