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Jackknife Estimation for Smooth Functions of the Parametric Component in Partially Linear Regression Models
- Source :
- Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. 32:1817-1833
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2003.
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Abstract
- It is known that due to the existence of the nonparametric component, the usual estimators for the parametric component or its function in partially linear regression models are biased. Sometimes this bias is severe. To reduce the bias, we propose two jackknife estimators and compare them with the naive estimator. All three estimators are shown to be asymptotically equivalent and asymptotically normally distributed under some regularity conditions. However, through simulation we demonstrate that the jackknife estimators perform better than the naive estimator in terms of bias when the sample size is small to moderate. To make our results more useful, we also construct consistent estimators of the asymptotic variance, which are robust against heterogeneity of the error variances.
Details
- ISSN :
- 1532415X and 03610926
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........4ea12634ea9ab42ecf4d15d6b453350e