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Area of Science:

  • Statistics
  • Biostatistics
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Missing data is common in real-world applications, yet under-addressed in testing order-restricted alternatives.
  • Existing methods like the likelihood ratio test are unsuitable for imputed data due to the non-existence of the likelihood function.
  • The missing at random (MAR) assumption is utilized for nonparametric imputation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel statistical test for order-restricted means in the presence of missing data.
  • To address the limitations of classical tests when dealing with imputed datasets.
  • To provide a robust method for analyzing data with increasing or decreasing order trends.

Main Methods:

  • Nonparametric imputation of missing values using kernel regression under the MAR assumption.
  • Construction of a novel test statistic using the jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) ratio.
  • Theoretical analysis showing the JEL ratio statistic converges to a chi-bar-square distribution.

Main Results:

  • The proposed JEL ratio test is applicable to data with imputed values.
  • The asymptotic distribution of the test statistic depends on missing probabilities and imputation methods.
  • Simulation studies demonstrate good performance across various missing data scenarios and data distributions (normal and non-normal).

Conclusions:

  • The JEL ratio test offers a viable solution for analyzing order-restricted alternatives with missing data.
  • The method is robust and performs well even with non-normally distributed data.
  • The approach is successfully applied to identify potential biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis using real-world data.