Article ID: | iaor201526419 |
Volume: | 69 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 236 |
End Page Number: | 271 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2015 |
Journal: | Statistica Neerlandica |
Authors: | Nadarajah Saralees, Withers Christopher S |
Keywords: | statistics: multivariate, simulation: applications |
Analytical bias reduction methods are developed for univariate rounded data for the first time. Extensions are given to rounding of multivariate data, and to smooth functionals of several distributions. As a by‐product, we give for the first time the relation between rounded and unrounded multivariate cumulants. Estimators obtained by analytical bias reduction are compared with bootstrap and jackknife estimators by simulation.