Poisson average maximum likelihood‐centered penalized estimator: A new estimator to better address multicollinearity in Poisson regression

Sheng Li, Wei Wang, Menghan Yao, Junyu Wang, Qianqian Du, Xuelin Li, Xinyue Tian, Jing Zeng, Ying Deng, Tao Zhang, Fei Yin and Yue Ma

Statistica Neerlandica, 2024, vol. 78, issue 1, 208-227

Abstract: The Poisson ridge estimator (PRE) is a commonly used parameter estimation method to address multicollinearity in Poisson regression (PR). However, PRE shrinks the parameters toward zero, contradicting the real association. In such cases, PRE tends to become an insufficient solution for multicollinearity. In this work, we proposed a new estimator called the Poisson average maximum likelihood‐centered penalized estimator (PAMLPE), which shrinks the parameters toward the weighted average of the maximum likelihood estimators. We conducted a simulation study and case study to compare PAMLPE with existing estimators in terms of mean squared error (MSE) and predictive mean squared error (PMSE). These results suggest that PAMLPE can obtain smaller MSE and PMSE (i.e., more accurate estimates) than the Poisson ridge estimator, Poisson Liu estimator, and Poisson K‐L estimator when the true β$$ \beta $$s have the same sign and small variation. Therefore, we recommend using PAMLPE to address multicollinearity in PR when the signs of the true β$$ \beta $$s are known to be identical in advance.

Date: 2024
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