Title
Robustness Property of Robust-BD Wald-Type Test for Varying-Dimensional General Linear Models.
Abstract
An important issue for robust inference is to examine the stability of the asymptotic level and power of the test statistic in the presence of contaminated data. Most existing results are derived in finite-dimensional settings with some particular choices of loss functions. This paper re-examines this issue by allowing for a diverging number of parameters combined with a broader array of robust error measures, called "robust-BD", for the class of "general linear models". Under regularity conditions, we derive the influence function of the robust-BD parameter estimator and demonstrate that the robust-BD Wald-type test enjoys the robustness of validity and efficiency asymptotically. Specifically, the asymptotic level of the test is stable under a small amount of contamination of the null hypothesis, whereas the asymptotic power is large enough under a contaminated distribution in a neighborhood of the contiguous alternatives, thus lending supports to the utility of the proposed robust-BD Wald-type test.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/e20030168
ENTROPY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bregman divergence,general linear model,hypothesis testing,influence function,robust,Wald-type test
Mathematical optimization,Test statistic,Null hypothesis,General linear model,Robustness (computer science),Generalized linear model,Bregman divergence,Statistical hypothesis testing,Mathematics,Estimator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
3
1099-4300
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiao Guo173.88
Chunming Zhang232.10