Errors in Variables or Bad Leverage at Some Observations ?
Date
2011-10
Authors
Blankmeyer, Eric
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Publisher
Texas State University-San Marcos
Abstract
Errors-in-variables is a long-standing, difficult issue in linear regression; and progress depends in part on new identifying assumptions. I characterize measurement error as bad-leverage points and assume that fewer than half the sample observations are heavily contaminated, in which case a high-breakdown robust estimator may be able to isolate and downweight or discard the problematic data. In simulations of simple and multiple regression where eiv affected 25% of the data and R2 was mediocre, one high-breakdown estimator had small bias, very good coverage, and precision that improved when the sample size increased.
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Keywords
errors in variables, measurement error, high-breakdown estimator, minimum covariance determinant, orthogonal regression
Citation
Blankmeyer, E. (2011). Errors in variables or bad leverage at some observations? Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.