Extension and implementation of bootstrap-based approaches for inference on the total deviation index

The total deviation index (TDI) is an unscaled statistical measure used to evaluate the deviation between paired quantitative measurements when assessing agreement between different raters. It describes a boundary such that a large specified proportion of the differences in paired-measurements are w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Felip i Badia, Anna
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/441458
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/441458
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:Mathematical statistics
R (Computer program language)
agreement
bootstrap
simulation study
total deviation index
Estadística matemàtica
R (Llenguatge de programació)
Classificació AMS::62 Statistics::62P Applications
Classificació AMS::62 Statistics::62G Nonparametric inference
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Sumario:The total deviation index (TDI) is an unscaled statistical measure used to evaluate the deviation between paired quantitative measurements when assessing agreement between different raters. It describes a boundary such that a large specified proportion of the differences in paired-measurements are within the boundary. The inference of the TDI involves the estimation of a 100(1-α)% upper bound, where α is the significance level. Already existing methodologies for TDI estimation and inference include both parametric (Choudhary, Escaramís et al.) and non-parametric approaches (Choudhary, Perez-Jaume and Carrasco). In this work, the goals are to propose and evaluate new bootstrap-based approaches for inference on the TDI in the method of Perez-Jaume and Carrasco and to implement the existing and new methodologies in an R package. We apply all methodologies to two real-world datasets with different distributions and we also conduct a simulation study to assess their performance. We conclude that under normally-distributed data the parametric methods perform better but under skewed data agreement should be assessed via the non-parametric methods.