MODEL SELECTION FOR LEAST ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS REGRESSION IN SMALL SAMPLES

被引:45
作者
HURVICH, CM [1 ]
TSAI, CL [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF DAVIS,DIV STAT,DAVIS,CA 95616
关键词
AIC; AICR; cAIC; L1; regression;
D O I
10.1016/0167-7152(90)90065-F
中图分类号
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号
020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;
摘要
We develop a small sample criterion (L1cAIC) for the selection of least absolute deviations regression models. In contrast to AIC (Akaike, 1973), L1cAIC provides an exactly unbiased estimator for the expected Kullback-Leibler information, assuming that the errors have a double exponential distribution and the model is not underfitted. In a Monte Carlo study, L1cAIC is found to perform much better than AIC and AICR (Ronchetti, 1985). A small sample criterion developed for normal least squares regression (cAIC, Hurvich and Tsai, 1988) is found to perform as well as L1cAIC. Further, cAIC is less computationally intensive than L1cAIC. © 1990.
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页码:259 / 265
页数:7
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