Robust estimation and model identification for longitudinal data varying-coefficient model

Shu Liu and Heng Lian

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2018, vol. 47, issue 11, 2701-2719

Abstract: It is well known that M-estimation is a widely used method for robust statistical inference and the varying coefficient models have been widely applied in many scientific areas. In this paper, we consider M-estimation and model identification of bivariate varying coefficient models for longitudinal data. We make use of bivariate tensor-product B-splines as an approximation of the function and consider M-type regression splines by minimizing the objective convex function. Mean and median regressions are included in this class. Moreover, with a double smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalization, we study the problem of simultaneous structure identification and estimation. Under approximate conditions, we show that the proposed procedure possesses the oracle property in the sense that it is as efficient as the estimator when the true model is known prior to statistical analysis. Simulation studies are carried out to demonstrate the methodological power of the proposed methods with finite samples. The proposed methodology is illustrated with an analysis of a real data example.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2017.1342835

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