variance: Estimator Variance

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Estimator Variance

Description

These functions calculate the variance (or variance - covariance matrix in the multidimensional case) of an estimator, given a specified family of distributions and the true parameter values.

Usage

v(distr, type, ...)

avar_mle(distr, ...)

avar_me(distr, ...)

avar_same(distr, ...)

Arguments

distr	A Distribution object.
type	character, case ignored. The estimator type.
...	extra arguments.

Value

numeric, or matrix for multidimensional cases.

Functions

• avar_mle(): Asymptotic Variance of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator

• avar_me(): Asymptotic Variance of the Moment Estimator

• avar_same(): Asymptotic Variance of the Score-Adjusted Moment Estimator

References

General Textbooks

• Van der Vaart, A. W. (2000), Asymptotic statistics, Vol. 3, Cambridge university press.

Beta and gamma distribution families

• Ye, Z.-S. & Chen, N. (2017), Closed-form estimators for the gamma distribution derived from likelihood equations, The American Statistician 71(2), 177–181.

• Tamae, H., Irie, K. & Kubokawa, T. (2020), A score-adjusted approach to closed-form estimators for the gamma and beta distributions, Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science 3, 543–561.

• Mathal, A. & Moschopoulos, P. (1992), A form of multivariate gamma distribution, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 44, 97–106.

• Oikonomidis, I. & Trevezas, S. (2023), Moment-Type Estimators for the Dirichlet and the Multivariate Gamma Distributions, arXiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15025

See Also

avar_mle, avar_me, avar_same

Examples

# -----------------------------------------------------
# Beta Distribution Example
# -----------------------------------------------------

# Create the distribution
a <- 3
b <- 5
D <- Beta(a, b)

# ------------------
# dpqr Functions
# ------------------

d(D, c(0.3, 0.8, 0.5)) # density function
p(D, c(0.3, 0.8, 0.5)) # distribution function
qn(D, c(0.4, 0.8)) # inverse distribution function
x <- r(D, 100) # random generator function

# alternative way to use the function
df <- d(D) ; df(x) # df is a function itself

# ------------------
# Moments
# ------------------

mean(D) # Expectation
var(D) # Variance
sd(D) # Standard Deviation
skew(D) # Skewness
kurt(D) # Excess Kurtosis
entro(D) # Entropy
finf(D) # Fisher Information Matrix

# List of all available moments
mom <- moments(D)
mom$mean # expectation

# ------------------
# Point Estimation
# ------------------

ll(D, x)
llbeta(x, a, b)

ebeta(x, type = "mle")
ebeta(x, type = "me")
ebeta(x, type = "same")

mle(D, x)
me(D, x)
same(D, x)
e(D, x, type = "mle")

mle("beta", x) # the distr argument can be a character

# ------------------
# Estimator Variance
# ------------------

vbeta(a, b, type = "mle")
vbeta(a, b, type = "me")
vbeta(a, b, type = "same")

avar_mle(D)
avar_me(D)
avar_same(D)

v(D, type = "mle")

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