The performance of model averaged tail area confidence intervals

DOI10.1080/03610926.2016.1242741zbMATH Open1379.62037arXiv1512.02764OpenAlexW3125328685MaRDI QIDQ4595863FDOQ4595863

Authors: Rheanna Mainzer, Paul Kabaila, Alan H. Welsh 

Publication date: 6 December 2017

Published in: Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the model averaged tail area (MATA) confidence interval proposed by Turek and Fletcher, CSDA, 2012, in the simple situation in which we average over two nested linear regression models. We prove that the MATA for any reasonable weight function belongs to the class of confidence intervals defined by Kabaila and Giri, JSPI, 2009. Each confidence interval in this class is specified by two functions b and s. Kabaila and Giri show how to compute these functions so as to optimize these intervals in terms of satisfying the coverage constraint and minimizing the expected length for the simpler model, while ensuring that the expected length has desirable properties for the full model. These Kabaila and Giri "optimized" intervals provide an upper bound on the performance of the MATA for an arbitrary weight function. This fact is used to evaluate the MATA for a broad class of weights based on exponentiating a criterion related to Mallows' C_P. Our results show that, while far from ideal, this MATA performs surprisingly well, provided that we choose a member of this class that does not put too much weight on the simpler model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02764

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zbMATH Keywords

model selectionconfidence intervalexpected lengthlinear regressioncoverage probabilityAkaike information criterion (AIC)nominal coveragemodel averaged tail area (MATA)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15)

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