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 Title: Some sequential estimation problems in logistic regression models Author(s): Chang, Yuan-Chin Ivan Doctoral Committee Chair(s): Martinsek, Adam T. Department / Program: Statistics Discipline: Statistics Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Degree: Ph.D. Genre: Dissertation Subject(s): Statistics Abstract: Let $({\bf X}\sb{i},Y\sb{i}), i = 1,2,\cdots,$ be a random sample satisfying a logistic regression model; that is, for each i, log($P(Y\sb{i}$ = $1\vert{\bf X}\sb{i})/P(Y\sb{i}$ = 0$\vert{\bf X}\sb{i})\rbrack$ = ${\bf X}\sbsp{i}{T}\beta\sb0,$ where $Y\sb{i}\in\{$0,1$\},$ ${\bf X}\sb{i}\in{\bf R}\sp{p}$ and $\beta\sb0\in{\bf R}\sp{p}$ is the unknown parameter vector of the logistic regression model. It is known that $\sqrt{n}(\\beta\sb n-\beta\sb0){\buildrel{\cal L}\over{\longrightarrow}} N(0\sb p,\Sigma\sp{-1}),$ where $\\beta\sb n$ is a MLE of $\beta\sb0$ and $\Sigma\sp{-1}$ is the Fisher information matrix. If $\Sigma$ is known then $R\sb d=\{Z\in{\bf R}\sp p:n(Z-\\beta\sb n)\sp T\Sigma(Z-\\beta\sb n)$ $\le n\lambda d\sp2\}$ defines a confidence ellipsoid for $\beta\sb0$, with maximum axis $\le 2d$ and $P(\beta\sb0\in R\sb d)\approx 1 - \alpha$ provided $n\ge a\sp2/(\lambda d\sp2),$ where $\lambda$ is the smallest eigenvalue of $\Sigma$ and a satisfies $P(\chi\sp2(p)\le a\sp2)$ = $1 - \alpha$. If $\Sigma$ is unknown then $\lambda$ usually will be unknown. Hence, there is no fixed sample size that can be used to construct a confidence ellipsoid with prescribed accuracy and confidence level. In this work, a sequential procedure is proposed to overcome this difficulty. The procedure is shown to be asymptotically consistent and efficient. That is to say, as d approaches 0 the coverage probability converges to the required confidence level and the ratio of the expected sample size to the unknown best fixed sample size converges to 1. Similar asymptotic properties for fixed proportional accuracy problems and for two stage procedures have also been obtained. Issue Date: 1991 Type: Text Language: English URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/21469 Rights Information: Copyright 1991 Chang, Yuan-Chin Ivan Date Available in IDEALS: 2011-05-07 Identifier in Online Catalog: AAI9136567 OCLC Identifier: (UMI)AAI9136567
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