Nonparametric Methods for Doubly Truncated Data

Details Nonparametric Methods for Doubly Truncated Data Nonparametric Methods for Doubly Truncated Data

1998-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808334v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

33 pages with 5 figures. In Press J. of Am. Stat. Assoc

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Truncated data plays an important role in the statistical analysis of astronomical observations as well as in survival analysis. The motivating example for this paper concerns a set of measurements on quasars in which there is double truncation. That is, the quasars are only observed if their luminosity occurs within a certain finite interval, bounded at both ends, with the interval varying for different observations. Nonparametric methods for the testing and estimation of doubly truncated data are developed. These methods extend some known techniques for data that is only truncated on one side, in particular Lynden-Bell's estimator and the truncated version of Kendall's tau statistic. However the kind of hazard function arguments that underlie the one-sided methods fail for two-sided truncation. Bootstrap and Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques are used here in their place. Finally, we apply these techniques to the quasar data, answering a question about their long-term luminosity evolution.

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