Exponential tilted likelihood for stationary time series models

Depending on the asymptotical independence of periodograms,exponential tilted(ET)likelihood,as an effective nonparametric statistical method,is developed to deal with time series in this paper.Similar to empirical likelihood(EL),it still suffers from two drawbacks:the nondefinition problem of the likelihood function and the under-coverage probability of confidence region.To overcome these two problems,we further proposed the adjusted ET(AET)likelihood.With a specific adjustment level,our simulation studies indicate that the AET method achieves a higher-order coverage precision than the unadjusted ET method.In addition,due to the good performance of ET under moment model misspecification[Schennach,S.M.(2007).Point estimation with exponentially tilted empirical likelihood.The Annals of Statistics,35(2),634–672.https://doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001208],we show that the one-order property of point estimate is preserved for the misspecified spectral estimating equations of the autoregressive coefficient of AR(1).The simulation results illustrate that the point estimates of the ET outperform those of the EL and their hybrid in terms of standard deviation.A real data set is analyzed for illustration purpose.

Adjusted Empirical Likelihood Estimation of Distribution Function and Quantile with Nonignorable Missing Data

This paper considers the estimation problem of distribution functions and quantiles with nonignorable missing response data. Three approaches are developed to estimate distribution functions and quantiles, i.e., the Horvtiz-Thompson-type method, regression imputation method and augmented inverse probability weighted approach. The propensity score is specified by a semiparametric expo- nential tilting model. To estimate the tilting parameter in the propensity score, the authors propose an adjusted empirical likelihood method to deal with the over-identified system. Under some regular conditions, the authors investigate the asymptotic properties of the proposed three estimators for distri- bution functions and quantiles, and find that these estimators have the same asymptotic variance. The jackknife method is employed to consistently estimate the asymptotic variances. Simulation studies are conducted to investigate the finite sample performance of the proposed methodologies.