Estimating large-scale general linear and seemingly unrelated regressions models after deleting observations

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• 作者：Stella Hadjiantoni ; Erricos John Kontoghiorghes
• 关键词：Downdating ; Generalized least squares ; Singular dispersion matrix ; Seemingly unrelated regressions ; Updating
• 刊名：Statistics and Computing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：27
• 期：2
• 页码：349-361
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• 刊物类别：Mathematics and Statistics
• 刊物主题：Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Statistical Theory and Methods; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-1375
• 卷排序：27

文摘

A new numerical method to solve the downdating problem (and variants thereof), namely removing the effect of some observations from the generalized least squares (GLS) estimator of the general linear model (GLM) after it has been estimated, is extensively investigated. It is verified that the solution of the downdated least squares problem can be obtained from the estimation of an equivalent GLM, where the original model is updated with the imaginary deleted observations. This updated GLM has a non positive definite dispersion matrix which comprises complex covariance values and it is proved herein to yield the same normal equations as the downdated model. Additionally, the problem of deleting observations from the seemingly unrelated regressions model is addressed, demonstrating the direct applicability of this method to other multivariate linear models. The algorithms which implement the novel downdating method utilize efficiently the previous computations from the estimation of the original model. As a result, the computational cost is significantly reduced. This shows the great usability potential of the downdating method in computationally intensive problems. The downdating algorithms have been applied to real and synthetic data to illustrate their efficiency.