A FREQUENCY DOMAIN EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD METHOD FOR IRREGULARLY SPACED SPATIAL DATA

被引:36
作者
Bandypadhyay, Soutir [1 ]
Lahiri, Soumendra N. [2 ]
Nordman, Daniel J. [3 ]
机构
[1] Lehigh Univ, Dept Math, Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA
[2] N Carolina State Univ, Dept Stat, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
[3] Iowa State Univ, Dept Stat, Ames, IA 50011 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Confidence sets; discrete Fourier transform; estimating equations; hypotheses testing; periodogram; spectral moment conditions; stochastic design; variogram; Wilks' theorem; ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; MIXING CONDITIONS; SHORT-RANGE; ESTIMATORS; RATIO;
D O I
10.1214/14-AOS1291
中图分类号
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号
020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;
摘要
This paper develops empirical likelihood methodology for irregularly spaced spatial data in the frequency domain. Unlike the frequency domain empirical likelihood (FUEL) methodology for time series (on a regular grid), the formulation of the spatial I-DEL needs special care due to lack of the usual orthogonality properties of the discrete Fourier transform for irregularly spaced data and due to presence of nontrivial bias in the periodogram under different spatial asymptotic structures. A spatial FDEL is formulated in the paper taking into account the effects of these factors. The main results of the paper show that Wilks' phenomenon holds for a scaled version of the logarithm of the proposed empirical likelihood ratio statistic in the sense that it is asymptotically distribution-free and has a chi-squared limit. As a result, the proposed spatial FDEL method can be used to build nonparametric, asymptotically correct confidence regions and tests for covariance parameters that are defined through spectral estimating equations, for irregularly spaced spatial data. In comparison to the more common studentization approach, a major advantage of our method is that it does not require explicit estimation of the standard error of an estimator, which is itself a very difficult problem as the asymptotic variances of many common estimators depend on intricate interactions among several population quantities, including the spectral density of the spatial process, the spatial sampling density and the spatial asymptotic structure. Results from a numerical study are also reported to illustrate the methodology and its finite sample properties.
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页码:519 / 545
页数:27
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