A Non-parametricANOVA-type Test forRegression Curves Based onCharacteristic Functions

This article studies a new procedure to test for the equality of k regression curves in a fully non-parametric context. The test is based on the comparison of empirical estimators of the characteristic functions of the regression residuals in each population. The asymptotic behaviour of the test sta...

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Authors: Pardo Fernández, Juan Carlos, Jiménez Gamero, María Dolores, El Ghouch, Anouar
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/138599
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/138599
https://doi.org/10.1111/sjos.12102
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:comparison of regression curves
empirical characteristic function
non-parametric regression
regression residuals
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Summary:This article studies a new procedure to test for the equality of k regression curves in a fully non-parametric context. The test is based on the comparison of empirical estimators of the characteristic functions of the regression residuals in each population. The asymptotic behaviour of the test statistic is studied in detail. It is shown that under the null hypothesis, the distribution of the test statistic converges to a finite combination of independent chi-squared random variables with one degree of freedom. The coefficients in this linear combination can be consistently estimated. The proposed test is able to detect contiguous alternatives converging to the null at the rate n − 1 ∕ 2. The practical performance of the test based on the asymptotic null distribution is investigated by means of simulations.