The paper discusses the regression analysis of current status data,which is common in various fields such as tumorigenic research and demographic studies.Analyzing this type of data poses a significant challenge and h...The paper discusses the regression analysis of current status data,which is common in various fields such as tumorigenic research and demographic studies.Analyzing this type of data poses a significant challenge and has recently gained considerable interest.Furthermore,the authors consider an even more difficult scenario where,apart from censoring,one also faces left-truncation and informative censoring,meaning that there is a potential correlation between the examination time and the failure time of interest.The authors propose a sieve maximum likelihood estimation(MLE)method and in the proposed method for inference,a copula-based procedure is applied to depict the informative censoring.Additionally,the authors utilise the splines to estimate the unknown nonparametric functions in the model,and the asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator are established.The simulation results indicate that the developed approach is effective in practice,and it has been successfully applied to a set of real data.展开更多
This paper focuses on synthesizing a mixed robust H_2/H_∞ linear parameter varying（LPV） controller for the longitudinal motion of an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle via a high order singular value decomposition（H...This paper focuses on synthesizing a mixed robust H_2/H_∞ linear parameter varying（LPV） controller for the longitudinal motion of an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle via a high order singular value decomposition（HOSVD） approach.The design of hypersonic flight control systems is highly challenging due to the enormous complexity of the vehicle dynamics and the presence of significant uncertainties.Motivated by recent results on both LPV control and tensor-product（TP） model transformation approach,the velocity and altitude tracking control problems for the air-breathing hypersonic vehicle is reduced to that of a state feedback stabilizing controller design for a polytopic LPV system with guaranteed performances.The controller implementation is converted into a convex optimization problem with parameterdependent linear matrix inequalities（LMIs） constraints,which is intuitively tractable using LMI control toolbox.Finally,numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.展开更多
Regression models are often transformed into certain alternative forms in statistical inference theory.In this paper,we assume that a general linear model(GLM)is transformed into two diferent forms,and our aim is to s...Regression models are often transformed into certain alternative forms in statistical inference theory.In this paper,we assume that a general linear model(GLM)is transformed into two diferent forms,and our aim is to study some comparison problems under the two transformed general linear models(TGLMs).We frst construct a general vector composed of all unknown parameters under the two diferent TGLMs,derive exact expressions of best linear minimum bias predictors(BLMBPs)by solving a constrained quadratic matrix-valued function optimization problem in the L¨owner partial ordering,and describe a variety of mathematical and statistical properties and performances of the BLMBPs.We then approach some algebraic characterization problems concerning relationships between the BLMBPs under two diferent TGLMs.As applications,two specifc cases are presented to illustrate the main contributions in the study.展开更多
Consider the partitioned linear regression model and its four reduced linear models, where y is an n × 1 observable random vector with E(y) = Xβ and dispersion matrix Var(y) = σ2 V, where σ2 is an unknown pos...Consider the partitioned linear regression model and its four reduced linear models, where y is an n × 1 observable random vector with E(y) = Xβ and dispersion matrix Var(y) = σ2 V, where σ2 is an unknown positive scalar, V is an n × n known symmetric nonnegative definite matrix, X = (X 1 : X 2) is an n×(p+q) known design matrix with rank(X) = r ≤ (p+q), and β = (β′ 1: β′2 )′ with β1 and β2 being p×1 and q×1 vectors of unknown parameters, respectively. In this article the formulae for the differences between the best linear unbiased estimators of M 2 X 1β1under the model and its best linear unbiased estimators under the reduced linear models of are given, where M 2 = I -X 2 X 2 + . Furthermore, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the equalities between the best linear unbiased estimators of M 2 X 1β1 under the model and those under its reduced linear models are established. Lastly, we also study the connections between the model and its linear transformation model.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.12171328,12001093,12231011,and 12071176the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No.2020YFA0714102Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.Z210003。
文摘The paper discusses the regression analysis of current status data,which is common in various fields such as tumorigenic research and demographic studies.Analyzing this type of data poses a significant challenge and has recently gained considerable interest.Furthermore,the authors consider an even more difficult scenario where,apart from censoring,one also faces left-truncation and informative censoring,meaning that there is a potential correlation between the examination time and the failure time of interest.The authors propose a sieve maximum likelihood estimation(MLE)method and in the proposed method for inference,a copula-based procedure is applied to depict the informative censoring.Additionally,the authors utilise the splines to estimate the unknown nonparametric functions in the model,and the asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator are established.The simulation results indicate that the developed approach is effective in practice,and it has been successfully applied to a set of real data.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6120300761304239+1 种基金61503392)the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(2015JQ6213)
文摘This paper focuses on synthesizing a mixed robust H_2/H_∞ linear parameter varying（LPV） controller for the longitudinal motion of an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle via a high order singular value decomposition（HOSVD） approach.The design of hypersonic flight control systems is highly challenging due to the enormous complexity of the vehicle dynamics and the presence of significant uncertainties.Motivated by recent results on both LPV control and tensor-product（TP） model transformation approach,the velocity and altitude tracking control problems for the air-breathing hypersonic vehicle is reduced to that of a state feedback stabilizing controller design for a polytopic LPV system with guaranteed performances.The controller implementation is converted into a convex optimization problem with parameterdependent linear matrix inequalities（LMIs） constraints,which is intuitively tractable using LMI control toolbox.Finally,numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
文摘Regression models are often transformed into certain alternative forms in statistical inference theory.In this paper,we assume that a general linear model(GLM)is transformed into two diferent forms,and our aim is to study some comparison problems under the two transformed general linear models(TGLMs).We frst construct a general vector composed of all unknown parameters under the two diferent TGLMs,derive exact expressions of best linear minimum bias predictors(BLMBPs)by solving a constrained quadratic matrix-valued function optimization problem in the L¨owner partial ordering,and describe a variety of mathematical and statistical properties and performances of the BLMBPs.We then approach some algebraic characterization problems concerning relationships between the BLMBPs under two diferent TGLMs.As applications,two specifc cases are presented to illustrate the main contributions in the study.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaTian Yuan Special Foundation (No.10226024)Postdoctoral Foundation of China and Lab.of Math.for Nonlinear Sciences at Fudan Universitysupported in part by The International Organizing Committee and The Local Organizing Committee at the University of Tampere for this Workshopsupported in part by an NSF grant of China
文摘Consider the partitioned linear regression model and its four reduced linear models, where y is an n × 1 observable random vector with E(y) = Xβ and dispersion matrix Var(y) = σ2 V, where σ2 is an unknown positive scalar, V is an n × n known symmetric nonnegative definite matrix, X = (X 1 : X 2) is an n×(p+q) known design matrix with rank(X) = r ≤ (p+q), and β = (β′ 1: β′2 )′ with β1 and β2 being p×1 and q×1 vectors of unknown parameters, respectively. In this article the formulae for the differences between the best linear unbiased estimators of M 2 X 1β1under the model and its best linear unbiased estimators under the reduced linear models of are given, where M 2 = I -X 2 X 2 + . Furthermore, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the equalities between the best linear unbiased estimators of M 2 X 1β1 under the model and those under its reduced linear models are established. Lastly, we also study the connections between the model and its linear transformation model.
