Efficient restricted estimators for conditional mean models with missing data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tan, Z.
• 署名单位: Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 刊物名称: BIOMETRIKA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0006-3444
• DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr007
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 663684
• 关键词: regression-models; Empirical Likelihood; inference; 2-phase; density

摘要

Consider a conditional mean model with missing data on the response or explanatory variables due to two-phase sampling or nonresponse. Robins et al. (1994) introduced a class of augmented inverse-probability-weighted estimators, depending on a vector of functions of explanatory variables and a vector of functions of coarsened data. Tsiatis (2006) studied two classes of restricted estimators, class 1 with both vectors restricted to finite-dimensional linear subspaces and class 2 with the first vector of functions restricted to a finite-dimensional linear subspace. We introduce a third class of restricted estimators, class 3, with the second vector of functions restricted to a finite-dimensional subspace. We derive a new estimator, which is asymptotically optimal in class 1, by the methods of nonparametric and empirical likelihood. We propose a hybrid strategy to obtain estimators that are asymptotically optimal in class 1 and locally optimal in class 2 or class 3. The advantages of the hybrid, likelihood estimator based on classes 1 and 3 are shown in a simulation study and a real-data example.