Approximations for moments and distributions in sequential analysis
Approximations for moments and distributions in sequential analysis
The stopping rules in sequential methods have posed a lot of difficulties in
analyzing the efficiencies of sequential procedures. The exact distributions
of the stopping points and the statistics related to those stopping rules are
hardly available explicitly. Woodroofe (1976), (1977), Lai and Siegmund
(1977), (1979) and Aras and Woodroofe (1993) have laid a foundation for
making asymptotic analysis for a large class of stopping rules.
In this thesis we consider the moments and distributions of some randomly
stopped standardized summations. Refined moment expansions are derived
after simplifying a result of Zhang (1988) in nonlinear renewal theory, and
moreover, Edgeworth expansion type of approximations for the distributions
are provided by means of Fourier transformations. A rigorous mathematical
study for a subclass cases while Mykland (1993)'s martingale expansion is
applicable shows that the expansions from these two different ways are the
same. Their applications in sequential estimations and estimations after
sequential tests are established. The second order coverage of a confidence
interval by Chow-Robbins procedure, the bias and mean squared error of the
maximum likelihood estimator after a sequential test as well as the skewness
of its distribution are presented. Simulation studies are conducted for both
sequential estimation and estimation after sequential test, which show that
the approximations we obtained work very well.
Wang, Nan
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October 1999
Wang, Nan
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Wang, Nan
(1999)
Approximations for moments and distributions in sequential analysis.
University of Southampton, Department of Mathematics, Doctoral Thesis, 141pp.
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Abstract
The stopping rules in sequential methods have posed a lot of difficulties in
analyzing the efficiencies of sequential procedures. The exact distributions
of the stopping points and the statistics related to those stopping rules are
hardly available explicitly. Woodroofe (1976), (1977), Lai and Siegmund
(1977), (1979) and Aras and Woodroofe (1993) have laid a foundation for
making asymptotic analysis for a large class of stopping rules.
In this thesis we consider the moments and distributions of some randomly
stopped standardized summations. Refined moment expansions are derived
after simplifying a result of Zhang (1988) in nonlinear renewal theory, and
moreover, Edgeworth expansion type of approximations for the distributions
are provided by means of Fourier transformations. A rigorous mathematical
study for a subclass cases while Mykland (1993)'s martingale expansion is
applicable shows that the expansions from these two different ways are the
same. Their applications in sequential estimations and estimations after
sequential tests are established. The second order coverage of a confidence
interval by Chow-Robbins procedure, the bias and mean squared error of the
maximum likelihood estimator after a sequential test as well as the skewness
of its distribution are presented. Simulation studies are conducted for both
sequential estimation and estimation after sequential test, which show that
the approximations we obtained work very well.
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