TLmix: NPMLE for Student t location mixtures

In REBayes: Empirical Bayes Estimation and Inference

NPMLE for Student t location mixtures

Description

Kiefer Wolfowitz NPMLE for Student t location mixtures

Usage

TLmix(x, v = 300, u = 300, df = 1, hist = FALSE, weights = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	Data: Sample Observations
v	bin boundaries defaults to equal spacing of length v
u	bin boundaries for histogram binning: defaults to equal spacing
df	Number of degrees of freedom of Student base density
hist	If TRUE then aggregate x to histogram weights
weights	replicate weights for x obervations, should sum to 1
...	optional parameters passed to KWDual to control optimization

Details

Kiefer Wolfowitz MLE density estimation as proposed by Jiang and Zhang for a Student t compound decision problem. The histogram option is intended for large problems, say n > 1000, where reducing the sample size dimension is desirable. By default the grid for the binning is equally spaced on the support of the data. Equal spaced binning is problematic for Cauchy data.

Value

An object of class density with components:

x	midpoints of evaluation on the domain of the mixing density
y	estimated function values at the points x of the mixing density
logLik	Log likelihood value at the proposed solution
dy	Bayes rule estimates of location at x
status	Mosek exit code

Author(s)

Roger Koenker

References

Kiefer, J. and J. Wolfowitz Consistency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in the Presence of Infinitely Many Incidental Parameters Ann. Math. Statist. 27, (1956), 887-906.

Jiang, Wenhua and Cun-Hui Zhang General maximum likelihood empirical Bayes estimation of normal means Ann. Statist., 37, (2009), 1647-1684.

Koenker, R. and J. Gu, (2017) REBayes: An R Package for Empirical Bayes Mixture Methods, Journal of Statistical Software, 82, 1–26.

See Also

GLmix for Gaussian version

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