Finite sample properties of confidence intervals centered on a model averaged estimator

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2019.10.004MaRDI QIDQ2301097zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alan H. Welsh, Christeen Wijethunga, Paul Kabaila

Publication date 28 February 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07933

zbMATH Keywords

coveragemodel averaged confidence intervalscaled expected length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Linear regression; mixed models (62J05)

Abstract: We consider the confidence interval centered on a frequentist model averaged estimator that was proposed by Buckland, Burnham & Augustin (1997). In the context of a simple testbed situation involving two linear regression models, we derive exact expressions for the confidence interval and then for the coverage and scaled expected length of the confidence interval. We use these measures to explore the exact finite sample performance of the Buckland-Burnham-Augustin confidence interval. We also explore the limiting asymptotic case (as the residual degrees of freedom increases) and compare our results for this case to those obtained for the asymptotic coverage of the confidence interval by Hjort & Claeskens (2003).

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• Glmulti
• R
• MuMIn
• AICcmodavg
• MAMI

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