DPER: Direct Parameter Estimation for Randomly missing data

Thu Nguyen

doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2021.108082

DPER: Direct Parameter Estimation for Randomly missing data

2022-03-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.knosys.2021.108082

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Parameter estimation is an important problem with applications in discriminant analysis, hypothesis testing, etc. Yet, when there are missing values in the data sets, commonly used imputation-based techniques are usually needed before further parameter estimation since works in direct parameter estimation exists in only limited settings. Unfortunately, such two-step procedures (imputation parameter estimation) can be computationally expensive. Therefore, it motivates us to propose novel algorithms that directly find the maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) for an arbitrary oneclass/multiple-class randomly missing data set under some mild assumptions. Furthermore, due to the direct computation, our algorithms do not require multiple iterations through the data, thus promising to be less time-consuming while maintaining superior estimation performance than state-of-the-art methods under comparisons. We validate these claims by empirical results on various data sets of different sizes.(c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Randomly missing data

Parameter estimation

MLEs

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