Testing the Information Matrix Equality with Robust Estimators



Table 1: Constants needed to compute the IM statistic T , as formulated in
(11), at the normal model for several robust estimators of scale

estimator

of scale

breakdown
point

c

bc

d

A

^10%

5.182

0.4476

0.03800

2.417 × 10 -4

TB

25%

2.937

0.3594

0.1059

0.03163

50%

1.548

0.1996

0.1925

0.8224

MAD

50%

0.6745

0.5

0.2121

2.362

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where mn = EFn [ m ( Y ; θn )] and θn such that θ - θn = 1 ∑i=1 IF( Yi ; θ; Fn ) +
op(n-1/2). Assuming the existence of

b = lim Пптп,
n→∞

it follows that under Hn the IM test statistic T = nM'V+M is asymptoti-
cally non-central
χ2 ,

T →d χq2 (δ),

with non-centrality parameter

δ = b'V+b.

In the following subsections, we derive explicit expressions for δ when
Fθ is the normal location-scale model, and Fn is a specific sequence of local
alternatives. As local alternatives we consider a contaminated normal, Stu-
dent’s
t, a skewed normal, and a tilted normal. By the results of Section 3.1,
the non-centrality parameter takes the form

δ = A+1 + 1b 2 + ⅛,

6     24

where

~

b I

~

b 2

~

b 3


~

= b = Wb,


10




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