Approximation by random weighting method for M-test in linear models

The M-test has been in common use and widely studied in testing the linear hypotheses in linear models. However, the critical value for the test is usually related to the quantities of the unknown error distribution and the estimate of the nuisance parameters may be rather involved, not only for the M-test method but also for the existing bootstrap methods. In this paper we suggest a random weighting resampling method for approximating the null distribution of the M-test statistic. It is shown that, under both the null and the local alternatives, the random weighting statistic has the same asymptotic distribution as the null distribution of the M-test. The critical values of the M-test can therefore be obtained by the random weighting method without estimating the nuisance parameters. A distinguished feature of the proposed method is that the approximation is valid even the null hypothesis is not true and the power evaluation is possible under the local alternatives.     

Testing Linearity in Functional Partially Linear Models

For the functional partially linear models including flexible nonparametric part and functional linear part,the estimators of the nonlinear function and the slope function have been studied in existing literature.How to test the correlation between response and explanatory variables,however,still seems to be missing.Therefore,a test procedure for testing the linearity in the functional partially linear models will be proposed in this paper.A test statistic is constructed based on the existing es...     

Some Properties of A Lack-of-Fit Test for a Linear Errors in Variables Model

The relationship between the linear errors-in-variables model and the corresponding ordinary linear model in statistical inference is studied. It is shown that normality of the distribution of covariate is a necessary and sufficient condition for the equivalence. Therefore, testing for lack-of-fit in linear errors-in-variables model can be converted into testing for it in the corresponding ordinary linear model under normality assumption. A test of score type is constructed and the limiting chi-squared distribution is derived under the null hypothesis.Furthermore, we discuss the power of the test and the choice of the weight function involved in the test statistic.     

Identification of Non-Varying Coefficients in Varying- Coefficient Models

A partially varying-coefficient model is one of the useful modelling tools. In this model, some coefficients of a linear model are kept to be constant whilst the others are allowed to vary with another factor. However, rarely can the analysts know a priori which coefficients can be assumed to be constant and which ones are varying with the given factor. Therefore, the identification problem of the constant coefficients should be solved before the partially varying-coefficient model is used to analyze a real-world data set. In this article, a simple test method is proposed to achieve this task, in which the test statistic is constructed as the sample variance of the estimates of each coefficient function in a well-known varying-coefficient model. Moreover two procedures, called F-approximation and three-moment X~2 approximation, are employed to derive the p-value of the test. Furthermore, some simulations are conducted to examine the performance of the test and the results are satisfactory.     

改进的自回归过程结构变点检验

In this paper, we consider the problem of detecting for structural changes in the autoregressive processes including AR（p） process. In performing a test, we employ the conventional residual CUSUM of squares test （RCUSQ） statistic. The RCUSQ test is based on the subsampling method introduced by Jach and Kokoszka [J. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 25（2004）]. It is shown that under regularity conditions, the asymptotic distribution of the test statistic is the function of a standard Brownian bridge. Simulation results as to AR（1） process and an example of real data analysis are provided for illustration.     

OPTIMALLY ACCURATE PETROV-GALERKIN METHOD OF FINITE ELEMENTS

We perform analysis for a finite elements method applied to the singular self-adjoint problem.This method uses continuous piecewise polynomial spaces for the trial and the test spaces.We fit the trial polynomial space by piecewise exponentials and we apply so exponentially fitted Galerkin method to singular self-adjomt problem by approximating driving terms by Lagrange piecewise polynomials,linear,quadratic and cubic.Wt measure the erroe in max norm.We show that method is optimal of the first order in the error estimate,We also give numerical results for the Galerkin approximation.     

Empirical likelihood based goodness-of-fit testing for generalized linear mixed models

In this paper, we propose a bias-corrected empirical likelihood （BCEL） ratio to construct a goodness- of-fit test for generalized linear mixed models. BCEL test maintains the advantage of empirical likelihood that is self scale invariant and then does not involve estimating limiting variance of the test statistic to avoid deteri- orating power of test. Furthermore, the bias correction makes the limit to be a process in which every variable is standard chi-squared. This simple structure of the process enables us to construct a Monte Carlo test proce- dure to approximate the null distribution. Thus, it overcomes a problem we encounter when classical empirical likelihood test is used, as it is asymptotically a functional of Gaussian process plus a normal shift function. The complicated covariance function makes it difficult to employ any approximation for the null distribution. The test is omnibus and power study shows that the test can detect local alternatives approaching the null at parametric rate. Simulations are carried out for illustration and for a comparison with existing method.     

Robust estimation for partially linear models with large-dimensional covariates

We are concerned with robust estimation procedures to estimate the parameters in partially linear models with large-dimensional covariates. To enhance the interpretability, we suggest implementing a nonconcave regularization method in the robust estimation procedure to select important covariates from the linear component. We establish the consistency for both the linear and the nonlinear components when the covariate dimension diverges at the rate of o(n1/2), where n is the sample size. We show that the robust estimate of linear component performs asymptotically as well as its oracle counterpart which assumes the baseline function and the unimportant covariates were known a priori. With a consistent estimator of the linear component, we estimate the nonparametric component by a robust local linear regression. It is proved that the robust estimate of nonlinear component performs asymptotically as well as if the linear component were known in advance.Comprehensive simulation studies are carried out and an application is presented to examine the fnite-sample performance of the proposed procedures.     

Inference of change-point in single index models

Single index models are widely used in medicine, econometrics and some other fields. In this paper, we consider the inference of a change point problem in single index models. Based on density-weighted average derivative estimation (ADE) method, we propose a statistic to test whether a change point exists or not. The null distribution of the test statistic is obtained using a permutation technique. The permuted statistic is rigorously shown to have the same distribution in the limiting sense under both null and alternative hypotheses. After the null hypothesis of no change point is rejected, an ADE-based estimate of the change point is proposed under assumption that the change point is unique. A simulation study confirms the theoretical results.     

Robustness of F-tests in singular linear models

F-test is the most popular test in the general linear model. However, there is few discussions on the robustness of F-test under the singular linear model. In this paper, the necessary and sufficient conditions of robust F-test statistic are given under the general linear models or their partition models, which allows that the design matrix has deficient rank and the covariance matrix of error is a nonnegative definite matrix with parameters. The main results obtained in this paper include the existing findings of the general linear model under the definite covariance matrix. The usage of the theorems is illustrated by an example.     

检验两个部分线性模型中非参函数相等

We propose the test statistic to check whether the nonparametric func-tions in two partially linear models are equality or not in this paper. We estimate the nonparametric function both in null hypothesis and the alternative by the local linear method, where we ignore the parametric components, and then estimate the parameters by the two stage method. The test statistic is derived, and it is shown to be asymptotically normal under the null hypothesis.     

PLM中误差方差未知时的GLR

本文检验部分线性回归模型(PLM)中,误差的方差未知时,函数部分是否是线性函数,在备择假设下,先用局部多项式方法估计出函数部分,再估计参数部分.计算出了零假设下广义似然比(GLR)检验统计量的表达式,给出了它的渐近分布,并对结果进行了模拟.     

部分线性模型基于参数信息的统计推断

针对部分线性模型提出了一种新的估计方法-Profile局部最小二乘估计,方法结合了非参数部分的参数信息.另外对于部分线性模型中非参数部分是否为某一参数函数的检验问题,基于比较原假设与备择假设下模型拟合的残差平方和的思想构造了检验统计量,并给出了计算检验p-值的精确方法和三阶矩χ2逼近方法.     

关于两总体均值差的一种半参数假设检验方法

近年来, 已有一些在半参数密度函数比模型下建立半参数统计分析方法的报道, 这些方法往往比参数方法稳健, 比非参数方法有效. 在本文里, 我们提出一种半参数的假设检验方法用于对两总体均值差进行假设检验. 该方法主要建立在对两总体均值差进行半参数估计的基础上. 我们报告了一些理论和统计模拟的结果, 得出该方法在数据符合正态性假设时, 比常用的参数和非参数方法略好; 而在数据不符合正态性假设时, 它的优势就非常明显. 我们还将提出的方法用到了两组真实数据的分析上.     

Testing Monotonicity of Regression

Abstract

This article provides a test of monotonicity of a regression function. The test is based on the size of a “critical” bandwidth, the amount of smoothing necessary to force a nonparametric regression estimate to be monotone. It is analogous to Silverman's test of multimodality in density estimation. Bootstrapping is used to provide a null distribution for the test statistic. The methodology is particularly simple in regression models in which the variance is a specified function of the mean, but we also discuss in detail the homoscedastic case with unknown variance. Simulation evidence indicates the usefulness of the method. Two examples are given.     

部分线性模型非参数分量的线性关系检验

对于部分线性模型中非参数部分是否为某一特定阶数(记为p)的多项式函数的检验问题,本文基于非参数函数在各点的p阶导函数估计值的样本方差构造了一个简单的检验统计量.给出了计算检验p-值的三阶矩χ2逼近方法.最后通过数值模拟验证了我们所提检验方法的有效性.     

测量误差模型参数变点的非参数检验

本讨论测量误差参数变点的检测问题,利用秩统计量,给出了模型只有一个变点的检验统计量,运用检验统计量渐近分布的性质,给出了一个计算检验淅近临界值的公式,由此我们可以较为客易计算检验的临界值。     

Approximation by randomly weighting method in censored regression model

Censored regression (“Tobit”) models have been in common use, and their linear hypothesis testings have been widely studied. However, the critical values of these tests are usually related to quantities of an unknown error distribution and estimators of nuisance parameters. In this paper, we propose a randomly weighting test statistic and take its conditional distribution as an approximation to null distribution of the test statistic. It is shown that, under both the null and local alternative hypotheses, conditionally asymptotic distribution of the randomly weighting test statistic is the same as the null distribution of the test statistic. Therefore, the critical values of the test statistic can be obtained by randomly weighting method without estimating the nuisance parameters. At the same time, we also achieve the weak consistency and asymptotic normality of the randomly weighting least absolute deviation estimate in censored regression model. Simulation studies illustrate that the performance of our proposed resampling test method is better than that of central chi-square distribution under the null hypothesis. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10471136), PhD Program Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China, and Special Foundations of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Science and Technology of China