Changepoints in stochastic ordering

Chengjie Xiong, George A. Milliken

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Abstract

This article studies the problem of testing and locating changepoints in stochastic ordering. We propose a sequential process to detect the changepoints from two multinomial distributions. We also obtain the maximum likelihood estimators of two multinomial probability vectors under the assumption that the cumulative distributions have a changepoint. Asymptotically unbiased Akaike's information criterion is used to estimate the changepoints of two discrete probability distributions. Finally, we demonstrate our procedure by studying a data set pertaining to average daily insulin dose from the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program and locate the changepoints in stochastic ordering.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)381-400
Number of pages20
JournalCommunications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
Volume29
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2000

Keywords

  • Chi-bar square distribution
  • Information criterion
  • Isotonic regression
  • Maximum likelihood estimate (MLE)
  • Multinomial distribution

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