Empirical likelihood method for non-ignorable missing data problems

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• 作者：Zhong Guan ; Jing Qin
• 关键词：Constrained estimation ; Empirical likelihood ; Non ; ignorable missing data ; Survey sampling
• 刊名：Lifetime Data Analysis
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：23
• 期：1
• 页码：113-135
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• 刊物类别：Mathematics and Statistics
• 刊物主题：Statistics, general; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance; Operation
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1572-9249
• 卷排序：23

文摘

Missing response problem is ubiquitous in survey sampling, medical, social science and epidemiology studies. It is well known that non-ignorable missing is the most difficult missing data problem where the missing of a response depends on its own value. In statistical literature, unlike the ignorable missing data problem, not many papers on non-ignorable missing data are available except for the full parametric model based approach. In this paper we study a semiparametric model for non-ignorable missing data in which the missing probability is known up to some parameters, but the underlying distributions are not specified. By employing Owen (1988)’s empirical likelihood method we can obtain the constrained maximum empirical likelihood estimators of the parameters in the missing probability and the mean response which are shown to be asymptotically normal. Moreover the likelihood ratio statistic can be used to test whether the missing of the responses is non-ignorable or completely at random. The theoretical results are confirmed by a simulation study. As an illustration, the analysis of a real AIDS trial data shows that the missing of CD4 counts around two years are non-ignorable and the sample mean based on observed data only is biased.