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Boquan Cheng1, Rogemar Mamon2,3
1Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada.
Abstract:
We develop an efficient algorithm to compute the likelihood of the phase-type ageing model. The proposed algorithm uses the uniformisation method to stabilise the numerical calculation. It also utilises a vectorised formula to only calculate the necessary elements of the probability distribution. Our algorithm, with an error's upper bound, could be adjusted easily to tackle the likelihood calculation of the Coxian models. Furthermore, we compare the speed and the accuracy of the proposed algorithm with those of the traditional method using the matrix exponential. Our algorithm is faster and more accurate than the traditional method in calculating the likelihood. Based on our experiments, we recommend using 20 sets of randomly-generated initial values for the optimisation to get a reliable estimate for which the evaluated likelihood is close to the maximum likelihood.
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