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Register a new userOn the Laplace transform of some quadratic forms and the exact distribution of the sample variance from a gamma or uniform parent distribution
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Thomas Royen
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2007
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Mathematical Statistics
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English
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From a suitable integral representation of the Laplace transform of a positive semi-definite quadratic form of independent real random variables with not necessarily identical densities a univariate integral representation is derived for the cumulative distribution function of the sample variance of i.i.d. random variables with a gamma density, supplementing former formulas of the author. Furthermore, from the above Laplace transform Fourier series are obtained for the density and the distribution function of the sample variance of i.i.d. random variables with a uniform distribution. This distribution can be applied e.g. to a statistical test for a scale parameter.
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Several representations of the exact cdf of the sum of squares of n independent gamma-distributed random variables Xi are given, in particular by a series of gamma distribution functions. Using a characterization of the gamma distribution by Laha, an expansion of the exact distribution of the sample variance is derived by a Taylor series approach with the former distribution as its leading term. In particular for integer orders alpha some further series are provided, including a convex combination of gamma distributions for alpha = 1 and nearly of this type for alpha > 1. Furthermore, some representations of the distribution of the angle Phi between (X1,...,Xn) and (1,...,1) are given by orthogonal series. All these series are based on the same sequence of easily computed moments of cos(Phi).
For a sample of absolutely bounded i.i.d. random variables with a continuous density the cumulative distribution function of the sample variance is represented by a univariate integral over a Fourier series. If the density is a polynomial or a trigonometrical polynomial the coefficients of this series are simple finite terms containing only the error function, the exponential function and powers. In more general cases - e.g. for all beta densities - the coefficients are given by some series expansions. The method is generalized to positive semi-definite quadratic forms of bounded independent but not necessarily identically distributed random variables if the form matrix differs from a diagonal matrix D > 0 only by a matrix of rank 1
We derive convenient uniform concentration bounds and finite sample multivariate normal approximation results for quadratic forms, then describe some applications involving variance components estimation in linear random-effects models. Random-effects models and variance components estimation are classical topics in statistics, with a corresponding well-established asymptotic theory. However, our finite sample results for quadratic forms provide additional flexibility for easily analyzing random-effects models in non-standard settings, which are becoming more important in modern applications (e.g. genomics). For instance, in addition to deriving novel non-asymptotic bounds for variance components estimators in classical linear random-effects models, we provide a concentration bound for variance components estimators in linear models with correlated random-effects. Our general concentration bound is a uniform version of the Hanson-Wright inequality. The main normal approximation result in the paper is derived using Reinert and R{o}llins (2009) embedding technique and multivariate Steins method with exchangeable pairs.
In the common nonparametric regression model the problem of testing for a specific parametric form of the variance function is considered. Recently Dette and Hetzler (2008) proposed a test statistic, which is based on an empirical process of pseudo residuals. The process converges weakly to a Gaussian process with a complicated covariance kernel depending on the data generating process. In the present paper we consider a standardized version of this process and propose a martingale transform to obtain asymptotically distribution free tests for the corresponding Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Cram{e}r-von-Mises functionals. The finite sample properties of the proposed tests are investigated by means of a simulation study.
We calculate exactly the Laplace transform of the Fr{e}chet distribution in the form $gamma x^{-(1+gamma)} exp(-x^{-gamma})$, $gamma > 0$, $0 leq x < infty$, for arbitrary rational values of the shape parameter $gamma$, i.e. for $gamma = l/k$ with $l, k = 1,2, ldots$. The method employs the inverse Mellin transform. The closed form expressions are obtained in terms of Meijer G functions and their graphical illustrations are provided. A rescaled Fr{e}chet distribution serves as a kernel of Fr{e}chet integral transform. It turns out that the Fr{e}chet transform of one-sided L{e}vy law reproduces the Fr{e}chet distribution.
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