期刊
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
卷 118, 期 541, 页码 639-650出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2021.1947307
关键词
Change-Point; Differentiable in quadratic mean; Efficiency; Gradient-descent; Newton-Raphson; Semiparametric semismooth estimating equation
This article studies the influence functions of regular and asymptotically linear estimators for linear spline models and proposes a simple estimating method to address the non-differentiability issue in estimating knots. The proposed method is computationally convenient and numerically stable, and it outperforms existing methods in terms of statistical and computational properties.
The linear spline model is able to accommodate nonlinear effects while allowing for an easy interpretation. It has significant applications in studying threshold effects and change-points. However, its application in practice has been limited by the lack of both rigorously studied and computationally convenient method for estimating knots. A key difficulty in estimating knots lies in the nondifferentiability. In this article, we study influence functions of regular and asymptotically linear estimators for linear spline models using the semiparametric theory. Based on the theoretical development, we propose a simple semismooth estimating equation approach to circumvent the nondifferentiability issue using modified derivatives, in contrast to the previous smoothing-based methods. Without relying on any smoothing parameters, the proposed method is computationally convenient. To further improve numerical stability, a two-step algorithm taking advantage of the analytic solution available when knots are known is developed to solve the proposed estimating equation. Consistency and asymptotic normality are rigorously derived using the empirical process theory. Simulation studies have shown that the two-step algorithm performs well in terms of both statistical and computational properties and improves over existing methods. for this article are available online.
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