Biometrika Advance Access originally published online on August 5, 2007
Biometrika 2007 94(3):585-601; doi:10.1093/biomet/asm055
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Implications of influence function analysis for sliced inverse regression and sliced average variance estimation
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne 3086, Australia
luke.prendergast{at}latrobe.edu.au
Received for publication 1 May 2006.
Revision received 1 February 2007.
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Sliced inverse regression, sliced inverse regression II and sliced average variance estimation are three related dimension-reduction methods that require relatively mild model assumptions. As an approximation for the relative influence of single observations from large samples, the influence function is used to compare the sensitivity of the three methods to particular observational types. The analysis carried out here helps to explain why there is a lack of agreement concerning the preferability of these dimension-reduction procedures in general. An efficient sample version of the influence function is also developed and evaluated.
Key Words: Bénasséni's coefficient Dimension reduction Influence function Robustness Sliced average variance estimation Sliced inverse regression