intRegGOF {intRegGOF}

Integrated Regression Goodness of Fit

Description

Integrated Regression Goodness of Fit to test if a given model is suitable to represent the regression function for a given data.

Usage

  intRegGOF(obj, covars = NULL, B = 499, LINMOD = FALSE)
  ## S3 method for class 'intRegGOF'
print(x,...)

Arguments

obj

An object of class lm, glm or nls.

covars

Names of continuous (numerical) variates used to compute Integrated Regression. They should be variables contained

in the data frame used to compute the regression fit.

B

Bootstrap resampling size.

LINMOD

When TRUE and if obj is an object of class lm Linear Model matrix fitting equations are used.

x

An object of class intRegGOF.

...

Further parameters for print command.

Details

The Integrated Regression Goodness of Fit technique is introduce in Stute(1997). The main idea is to study the process that results from the cumulation of the residuals up to a given value of the covariates. Once this process is built, different functional over it can be considered to measure the discrepany between the true regression function and its estimation.

The tests that implements this function is

H_0:m\in M \ \textrm{vs} \ H_1:m\notin M

being m the regression function, and M a given class of functions. The statistics considered are

K_n=\sup_{x\in R^d}|R^w_n(x)|

W^2_n=\int_{R^d}R^w_n(z)^2 \,dF(z).

where R^w_n(z) is the cumulated residual process:

R^w_n(x)=n^{-1/2}\sum^n_{i=1}(y_i-\hat y_i)I(x_i\le x).

As the stochastic behaviour of this cumulated residual process is quite complex, the implementation of the technique is based on resampling techniques. In particular the chosen implementation is based on Wild Bootstrap methods.

The method also handles selection biased data by means of compensation, by means of the weights used to fit the resgression function when computing the cumulated residual process.

At the moment only 'response' type of residuals are considered, jointly with wild bootstrap resampling technique and the result for discrete responses might no be proper.

Value

This function returns an object of class intRegGOF, a list which cointains following objects:

call

The call to the function

regObj

String with the lm, glm or nls object whose fit is cheked

regModel

lm, glm or nls object call.

p.value

p–values for K_n and W^2_n statistics.

datStat

value of K_n and W^2_n statistics.

covars

continuous (numerical) variates used to compute Integrated Regression.

intErr

cumulated residual process at the values of covars in data.

xLT

structure with the order of covars summation.

bootSamp

Bootstrap samples for K_n and W^2_n.

Note

This method requires more testing, and careful study of the effect of factors (discrete random variables) when fitting the model.

Author(s)

Jorge Luis Ojeda Cabrera ([e-mail]).

References

Stute, W. (1997). Nonparametric model checks for regression. Ann. Statist., 25(2), pp. 613–641.

Ojeda, J. L., W. González-Manteiga W. and Cristóbal, J. A A bootstrap based Model Checking for Selection–Biased data Reports in Statistics and Operations Research, U. de Santiago de Compostela. Report 07-05 http://eio.usc.es/eipc1/BASE/BASEMASTER/FORMULARIOS-PHP-DPTO/REPORTS/447report07_05.pdf

Ojeda, J. L., Cristóbal, J. A., and Alcalá, J. T. (2008). A bootstrap approach to model checking for linear models under length-biased data. Ann. Inst. Statist. Math., 60(3), pp. 519–543.

See Also

lm, glm, nls and its methods summary, print, plot, etc...

Examples

n <- 50
d <- data.frame( X1=runif(n),X2=runif(n))
d$Y <- 1 + 2*d$X1 + rnorm(n,sd=.125)
plot( d ) 
intRegGOF(lm(Y~X1+X2,d),B=99)
intRegGOF(a <- lm(Y~X1-1,d),B=99) 
intRegGOF(a,c("X1","X2"),B=99) 
intRegGOF(a,~X2+X1,B=99)