Faculty Advisor
Jeffrey Terpstra
Department
Statistics
Presentation Date
4-15-2011
Document Type
Poster
Abstract
The presence of aberrant observations (i.e. outliers) in cell lineage data is quite common. As such, it is desirable to have an outlier-resistant estimation procedure as an alternative to least squares estimation (maximum likelihood estimation under normality). In this work, we consider rankbased estimates of the parameters of a first order bifurcating autoregressive [BAR(1)] model. The BAR(1) model was proposed by Cowan and Staudte (1986) for cell lineage data. In it, each line of descendents follows a first order autoregressive [AR(1)] model and allows sister cells from the same mother to be correlated. Real examples and a simulation study are performed in order to examine the behavior of these rank-based estimation procedures. More specifically, we compute finite sample relative efficiencies with respect to least squares estimate. The results indicate that the rank-based estimation procedures are more efficient when outlying observations are present.
WMU ScholarWorks Citation
Elbayoumi, Tamer M. and Terpstra, Jeffrey, "A Rank-Based Estimate for Cell Lineage Data" (2011). Research and Creative Activities Poster Day. 1.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/grad_research_posters/1