Saddlepoint test in measurement error models

Yanyuan Ma, Elvezio Ronchetti

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Abstract

We develop second-order hypothesis testing procedures in functional measurement error models for small or moderate sample sizes, where the classical first-order asymptotic analysis often fails to provide accurate results. In functional models no distributional assumptions are made on the unobservable covariates and this leads to semiparametric models. Our testing procedure is derived using saddlepoint techniques and is based on an empirical distribution estimation subject to the null hypothesis constraints, in combination with a set of estimating equations which avoid a distribution approximation. The validity of the method is proved in theorems for both simple and composite hypothesis tests, and is demonstrated through simulation and a farm size data analysis.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)147-156
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of the American Statistical Association
Volume106
Issue number493
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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