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Curriculum Vitae, Tatiyana V. Apanasovich
Curriculum Vitae, Tatiyana V. Apanasovich
Tatiyana V Apanasovich
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Computing Highly Accurate Or Exact P-Values Using Importance Sampling (Revised), Chris Lloyd
Computing Highly Accurate Or Exact P-Values Using Importance Sampling (Revised), Chris Lloyd
Chris J. Lloyd
Especially for discrete data, standard first order P-values can suffer from poor accuracy, even for quite large sample sizes. Moreover, different test statistics can give practically different results. There are several approaches to computing P-values which do not suffer these defects, such as parametric bootstrap P-values or the partially maximised P-values of Berger & Boos (1994).
Both these methods require computing the exact tail probability of the approximate P-value as a function of the nuisance parameter/s, known as the significance profile. For most practical problems this is not computationally feasible. I develop an importance sampling approach to this problem. A …
Statistical Simulation: Power Method Polynomials And Other Transformations, Todd C. Headrick
Statistical Simulation: Power Method Polynomials And Other Transformations, Todd C. Headrick
Todd Christopher Headrick
Although power method polynomials based on the standard normal distributions have been used in many different contexts for the past 30 years, it was not until recently that the probability density function (pdf) and cumulative distribution function (cdf) were derived and made available. Focusing on both univariate and multivariate nonnormal data generation, Statistical Simulation: Power Method Polynomials and Other Transformations presents techniques for conducting a Monte Carlo simulation study. It shows how to use power method polynomials for simulating univariate and multivariate nonnormal distributions with specified cumulants and correlation matrices. The book first explores the methodology underlying the power method, …