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Likelihood Ratio Testing under Non-identifiability: Theory and Biomedical Applications

Outline. Challenges associated with likelihood inferenceNuisance parameters absent under null hypothesisSome biomedical examplesStatistical implicationsClass I: alternative representation of LR test statisticImplicationsClass IIAsymptotic null distribution of LR test statisticSome alternativ

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Likelihood Ratio Testing under Non-identifiability: Theory and Biomedical Applications

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    1. Likelihood Ratio Testing under Non-identifiability: Theory and Biomedical Applications Kung-Yee Liang and Chongzhi Di Department Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University July 9-10, 2009 National Taiwan University

    2. Outline Challenges associated with likelihood inference Nuisance parameters absent under null hypothesis Some biomedical examples Statistical implications Class I: alternative representation of LR test statistic Implications Class II Asymptotic null distribution of LR test statistic Some alternatives A genetic linkage example Discussion

    3. Likelihood Inference Likelihood inference has been successful in a variety of scientific fields LOD score method for genetic linkage BRCA1 for breast cancer Hall et al. (1990) Science Poisson regression for environmental health Fine air particle (PM10) for increased mortality in total cause and in cardiovascular and respiratory causes Samet et al. (2000) NEJM ML image reconstruction estimate for nuclear medicine Diagnoses for myocardial infarction and cancers

    4. Challenges for Likelihood Inference In the absence of sufficient substantive knowledge, likelihood function maybe difficult to fully specify Genetic linkage for complex traits Genome-wide association with thousands of SNPs Gene expression data for tumor cells There is computational issue as well for high-dimensional observations High throughput data

    5. Challenges for Likelihood Inference (cont) Impacts of nuisance parameters Inconsistency of MLE with many nuisance parameters (Neyman-Scott problem) Different scientific conclusions with different nuisance parameter values Ill-behaved likelihood function Asymptotic approximation not ready

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