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Linear regression by functional least squares

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

C. R. Heathcote
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Abstract

The standard linear regression model is analysed using a method called functional least squares which yields a family of estimators for the slope parameter indexed by a real variable t, |t| ≦ T. The choice t = 0 corresponds to ordinary least squares, non-zero values being appropriate if the error distribution is long-tailed, and it is argued that the approach is a natural extension of least squares methodology. It emerges that the asymptotic normal distribution of these estimators has a covariance matrix characterised by a scalar function of t, called the variance function, which is determined by the error distribution. Properties of this variance function suggest graphical criteria for detecting departures from normality.

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Type
Part 5 — Statistical Theory
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 19 , Issue A , 1982 , pp. 225 - 239
Copyright
Copyright © 1982 Applied Probability Trust 

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