Robustness of F-tests in singular linear models

Citation
Qiu, Hong Bing et al., Robustness of F-tests in singular linear models, Acta mathematica Sinica. English series (Print) , 30(5), 2014, pp. 872-880
ISSN journal
14398516
Volume
30
Issue
5
Year of publication
2014
Pages
872 - 880
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
F-test is the most popular test in the general linear model. However, there is few discussions on the robustness of F-test under the singular linear model. In this paper, the necessary and sufficient conditions of robust F-test statistic are given under the general linear models or their partition models, which allows that the design matrix has deficient rank and the covariance matrix of error is a nonnegative definite matrix with parameters. The main results obtained in this paper include the existing findings of the general linear model under the definite covariance matrix. The usage of the theorems is illustrated by an example.