Acta mathematica scientia,Series A

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Strong Consistency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in Generalized Linear Models

Ding Jieli;Chen Xiru   

  1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University;Graduate School, The Chinese Academy of Science
  • Received:2003-11-11 Revised:2004-12-19 Online:2006-04-25 Published:2006-04-25
  • Contact: Ding Jieli

Abstract: Assuming the generalized linear model as described in \S1, let λ_nand ¯λn denote the minimum and maximum eigentvalues ofni=1ZiZi resp., andˆβn denote the maximum likelihood estimator of β0. It is shown in [1] that, when \{Zi,i1\}is bounded, the sufficient conditions for strong consistency of ˆβn are as follows:λ_n, (¯λn)1/2+δ=O(λ_n)(for some δ>0) with natural link function, and λ_n,¯λn=O(λ_n) with nonnatural link function resp.. In this paper, the authors improvethe latter result by showing that even in the case of nonnatural link function, the condition(¯λn)1/2+δ=O(λ_n) remains to be sufficient.

Key words: Generalized linear model, Maximum likelihood estimate, Strong consistency.

CLC Number: 

  • 62J12
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