Least Squares estimation of two ordered monotone regression curves

Details Least Squares estimation of two ordered monotone regression curves Least Squares estimation of two ordered monotone regression curves

2009-04-14

arxiv.org/abs/0904.2052v3

J. Nonparametr. Stat. (2011), 22(8), 1019-1037

Statistics

Methodology

23 pages, 2 figures. Second revised version according to reviewer comments

Scientific paper

10.1080/10485250903548729

In this paper, we consider the problem of finding the Least Squares estimators of two isotonic regression curves $g^\circ_1$ and $g^\circ_2$ under the additional constraint that they are ordered; e.g., $g^\circ_1 \le g^\circ_2$. Given two sets of $n$ data points $y_1, ..., y_n$ and $z_1, >...,z_n$ observed at (the same) design points, the estimates of the true curves are obtained by minimizing the weighted Least Squares criterion $L_2(a, b) = \sum_{j=1}^n (y_j - a_j)^2 w_{1,j}+ \sum_{j=1}^n (z_j - b_j)^2 w_{2,j}$ over the class of pairs of vectors $(a, b) \in \mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R}^n $ such that $a_1 \le a_2 \le ...\le a_n $, $b_1 \le b_2 \le ...\le b_n $, and $a_i \le b_i, i=1, ...,n$. The characterization of the estimators is established. To compute these estimators, we use an iterative projected subgradient algorithm, where the projection is performed with a "generalized" pool-adjacent-violaters algorithm (PAVA), a byproduct of this work. Then, we apply the estimation method to real data from mechanical engineering.

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