Li Dongyu, Wang Lei
School of Statistics and Data Science & LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
J Appl Stat. 2021 Apr 27;49(11):2767-2788. doi: 10.1080/02664763.2021.1919606. eCollection 2022.
The th ( ) power expectile regression (ER) can balance robustness and effectiveness between the ordinary quantile regression and ER simultaneously. Motivated by a longitudinal ACTG 193A data with nonignorable dropouts, we propose a two-stage estimation procedure and statistical inference methods based on the th power ER and empirical likelihood to accommodate both the within-subject correlations and nonignorable dropouts. Firstly, we construct the bias-corrected generalized estimating equations by combining the th power ER and inverse probability weighting approaches. Subsequently, the generalized method of moments is utilized to estimate the parameters in the nonignorable dropout propensity based on sufficient instrumental estimating equations. Secondly, in order to incorporate the within-subject correlations under an informative working correlation structure, we borrow the idea of quadratic inference function to obtain the improved empirical likelihood procedures. The asymptotic properties of the corresponding estimators and their confidence regions are derived. The finite-sample performance of the proposed estimators is studied through simulation and an application to the ACTG 193A data is also presented.
第(th)次幂期望分位数回归(ER)能够同时在普通分位数回归和ER之间平衡稳健性和有效性。受具有不可忽略缺失值的纵向ACTG 193A数据的启发,我们基于第(th)次幂ER和经验似然提出了一种两阶段估计程序和统计推断方法,以兼顾个体内相关性和不可忽略的缺失值。首先,我们通过结合第(th)次幂ER和逆概率加权方法构建偏差校正广义估计方程。随后,基于充分的工具估计方程,利用广义矩方法估计不可忽略缺失倾向中的参数。其次,为了在信息性工作相关结构下纳入个体内相关性,我们借鉴二次推断函数的思想来获得改进的经验似然程序。推导了相应估计量及其置信区域的渐近性质。通过模拟研究了所提出估计量的有限样本性能,并给出了其在ACTG 193A数据中的应用。