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ArticleJournal of the American Statistical Association2018

Testing for inequality constraints in singular models by trimming or winsorizing the variance matrix.

Ori Davidov, Casey M Jelsema, Shyamal Peddada

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Article in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors.

Ori DavidovDepartment of Statistics, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905 Israel.
Casey M JelsemaDepartment of Statistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506.
Shyamal PeddadaBiostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Alexander Drive, RTP, NC 27709.

Funding

Statistical Theory and Methodology with Applications toZ01ES101744 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PEDDADA, SHYAMAL · 2004 to 2008
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Intramural NIH HHS Z01 ES101744
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 non-singular. 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, i.e., constrained or ordered alternatives. In this paper 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.

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Constrained and ordered inferencegeneralized inversemodified likelihood ratio test (mLRT)Moore–Penrose inverse(nearly) singular covariance matrix

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PMID33093735
PMCPMC7577112

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