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A general algorithm for computing simultaneous prediction intervals for the (log)-location-scale family of distributions
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
  • Yimeng Xie, Virginia Tech
  • Yili Hong, Virginia Tech
  • Luis A. Escobar, Louisiana State University
  • William Q. Meeker, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
1-1-2017
DOI
10.1080/00949655.2016.1277426
Abstract

Making predictions of future realized values of random variables based on currently available data is a frequent task in statistical applications. In some applications, the interest is to obtain a two-sided simultaneous prediction interval (SPI) to contain at least k out of m future observations with a certain confidence level based on n previous observations from the same distribution. A closely related problem is to obtain a one-sided upper (or lower) simultaneous prediction bound (SPB) to exceed (or be exceeded) by at least k out of m future observations. In this paper, we provide a general approach for computing SPIs and SPBs based on data from a particular member of the (log)-location-scale family of distributions with complete or right censored data. The proposed simulation-based procedure can provide exact coverage probability for complete and Type II censored data. For Type I censored data, our simulation results show that our procedure provides satisfactory results in small samples. We use three applications to illustrate the proposed simultaneous prediction intervals and bounds.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis as Xie, Yimeng, Yili Hong, Luis A. Escobar, and William Q. Meeker. "A general algorithm for computing simultaneous prediction intervals for the (log)-location-scale family of distributions." Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 87, no. 8 (2017): 1559-1576. DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2016.1277426. Posted with permission.

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Taylor & Francis
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en
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Citation Information
Yimeng Xie, Yili Hong, Luis A. Escobar and William Q. Meeker. "A general algorithm for computing simultaneous prediction intervals for the (log)-location-scale family of distributions" Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation Vol. 87 Iss. 8 (2017) p. 1559 - 1576
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/wqmeeker/160/