Testing for Inequality Constraints in Singular Models by Trimming or Winsorizing the Variance Matrix

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Davidov, Ori; Jelsema, Casey M.; Peddada, Shyamal
• 署名单位: University of Haifa; West Virginia University; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0162-1459
• DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2017.1301258
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 906-918
• 关键词: order-restricted inference; nuisance parameter; linear-models; assay data

摘要

There are many applications in which a statistic follows, at least asymptotically, a normal distribution with a singular or nearly singular variance matrix. A classic example occurs in linear regression models under multicollinearity but there are many more such examples. There is well-developed theory for testing linear equality constraints when the alternative is two-sided and the variance matrix is either singular or nonsingular. In recent years, there is considerable, and growing, interest in developing methods for situations in which the estimated variance matrix is nearly singular. However, there is no corresponding methodology for addressing one-sided, that is, constrained or ordered alternatives. In this article, we develop a unified framework for analyzing such problems. Our approach may be viewed as the trimming or winsorizing of the eigenvalues of the corresponding variance matrix. The proposed methodology is applicable to a wide range of scientific problems and to a variety of statistical models in which inequality constraints arise. We illustrate the methodology using data from a gene expression microarray experiment obtained from the NIEHS' Fibroid Growth Study. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.