Questions tagged [heteroscedasticity]
Non-constant variance along some continuum in a random process, or varying between discrete groups
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homoscedasticity for a linear model
I have a linear model with two continuous variables and three categorical variables. Do I need to check homoscedasticity within each level of my categorical variables, or is it sufficient to check ...
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In linear regression, what changes when you use robust standard errors to overcome non-constant variance?
In my first course on linear regression, I learned the 4 basic assumptions that every textbook teaches: linearity, independence, homoscedasticity, and normality. However, I recently learned about ...
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Is GARCH assumption on constant drift wrong in log space?
GARCH assumes constant drift $\mu$ - this imply $E[e^r]$ won't be constant and jump wildly. And it contradicts the reality, for stock prices $E[S_{t}/S_{t-1}]=E[e^r]$ doesn't jump with each time step. ...
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Is it possible to identify this residual pattern as heteroscedastic or homoscedastic?
Plotting data onto a scatterplot from the U.S. Department of Transportation shows that there is a clear positive linear relationship between % of drivers under age 21 and fatal incidents per 1000 ...
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Handling Heteroscedastic Data with Generalized Linear Models
Suppose I have a dataset $\{x_i,y_i,\sigma^2_i\}$ where $x_i$ is my independent variable, $y_i$ is my dependent variable, and $\sigma^2_i$ is the observed variance of $y_i$. I know that the random ...
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Statistical test(s) to assess if it is necessary to transform a time series to stabilise the variance?
Statistical test(s) to help assess if it is necessary to transform a time series (using a Box-Cox transformation) to stabilise the variance before using Hyndman-Khandakar algorithm for automatic ARIMA ...
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Regression when errors are provided to you?
This is a unique modelling situation we are dealing with. There are measurements $y_i$ taken at different times $t_i$. After the measurements are taken, we have experts telling us that at each $y_i$, ...
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Normality of residuals in aov() can be assumed, but test for homoscedacity fail, do I have to recheck normality for each group applying oneway.test()? [duplicate]
Assume the following situation: Assume you ran a Fisher Oneway-ANOVA (aov() in R) and found that the residuals are normally distributed based on the Shapiro-Wilk ...
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Structured prior in brms
In R package brms, the gterms have a Gaussian prior. Is it possible to specify the variance for that Gaussian prior as a nonlinear function of covariates?
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Behavior of heteroskedasticity-consistent standard errors under homoskedasticity
Consider multiple linear regression $$ y = \beta_0 + \beta_1 X_1 + \beta_2 X_2 + \varepsilon, \quad \varepsilon|X \ \mathop{\sim}\limits^{\mathrm{iid}}\ N(0,\sigma^2). $$ I estimate the covariance ...
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Modelling residual autocorrelation and heteroskedasticity in a small sample
I have monthly time series $\{y_t\}$ and $\{x_t\}$ (continuous variables) with just over 200 observations. I model $y_t$ conditional on $x_t$ them as follows: $$ y_t = \alpha_1Jan_t + \dots + \alpha_{...
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Intuition behind consistency of heteroskedasticity-consistent covariance matrix estimators
What is the intuition behind consistency of heteroskedasticity-consistent (HC) covariance matrix estimators (heteroskedasticity consistent standard errors) such as Eicker-Huber-White (HC0) and other ...
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How to handle heteroscedasticity in a mixed-effects model?
I'm analyzing data from a repeated measures study using a mixed-effects linear model. My dependent variable is Y (an eye-tracking parameter: total fixation duration), and I'm investigating the effect ...
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Test regression assumption
I have run simple regression analysis for my work (it is about prediction of body fat using medical images; and I have very low sample size - only 21 samples) and also running the test for regression ...
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ADF and KPSS tests suggests stationarity, but residuals exhibit heteroscedasticity. How to interpret?
To give an overview: I am currently conducting an interrupted time series analysis on daily social media data, focusing on posting frequencies. Initially, I attempted to implement a segmented ...