© 2002 by Biometrika Trust
On empirical likelihood for a semiparametric mixture model
1 Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, U.S.Afeizou{at}stat.wisc.edu fine{at}stat.wisc.edu yandell{at}stat.wisc.edu
Plant and animal studies of quantitative trait loci provide data which arise from mixtures of distributions with known mixing proportions.Previous approaches to estimation involve modelling the distributions parametrically. We propose a semiparametric alternative which assumes that the log ratio of the component densities satisfies a linear model, with the baseline density unspecified. It is demonstrated that a constrained empirical likelihood has an irregularity under the null hypothesis that the two densities are equal. A factorisation of the likelihood suggests a partial empirical likelihood which permits unconstrained estimation of the parameters, and which is shown to give consistent and asymptotically normal estimators, regardless of the null. The asymptotic null distribution of the log partial likelihood ratio is chi-squared. Theoretical calculations show that the procedure may be as efficient as the full empirical likelihood in the regular set-up. The usefulness of the robust methodology is illustrated with a rat study of breast cancer resistance genes.
Key Words: Boundary condition; Breeding experiment; Exponential tilt; Lagrange multiplier; Molecular marker; Profile likelihood; Weak convergence
Received November 2000. Revised July 2001
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