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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: spatial modeling of a mixture distribution
  name:
    name part: Zhong, Yibing.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 81 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The mixture of discrete and continuous distributions was first considered by Aitchison (1955) and is called the Delta-Distribution. Pennington (1983) obtained the uniform minimum variance unbiased estimators for parameters of the Delta-Distribution under conditions that the distributions are identically independent distributions (i.i.d). Stefansson (1996) introduced spatial patterns into the Delta-Distribution which were assumed to be independent, but not necessarily identically distributed. For the exponential family with spatial correlation, Besag (1974) introduced the method of quasi-likelihood and Liang and Zeger (1986) provided the method of quasi-likelihood. However, both procedures required certain conditions to be satisfied and there are no general asymptotic results for these estimators. In this dissertation, the pseudo-likelihood and the quasi-likelihood procedures are used to estimate the parameters of the Delta-Distribution. The general conditions needed to use the pseudo-likelihood procedure are found. The quasi-likelihood estimators are extended to a new estimator which has excellent asymptotic properties. A simulation study is used to evaluate the fixed sample size properties of these estimators. The model is also used to analyze a data set from marine science.
  note: by Yibing Zhong.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Statistics".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2000.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-70).
  subject:
    topic: Major statistics
  identifier: 99-94381 UMI
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