Autocorrelation Effects on Least-Squares Intervention Analysis of Short Time Series
| Autor: | Scott D. McKnight, Bradley E. Huitema, Joseph W. McKean |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
050103 clinical psychology
Series (mathematics) Applied Mathematics 05 social sciences Autocorrelation Design matrix 050401 social sciences methods Asymptotic theory (statistics) Least squares Education 0504 sociology Sample size determination Distortion Statistics Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Applied Psychology Mathematics Type I and type II errors |
| Zdroj: | Educational and Psychological Measurement. 59:767-786 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3888 0013-1644 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00131649921970134 |
| Popis: | Several issues regarding the effects of autocorrelated errors on Type I error in ordinary least-squares models are clarified. Although autocorrelated errors have a large effect on both omnibus F tests and tests on individual intervention effect coefficients in many applications, there are exceptions that have not been pointed out previously. It is demonstrated that under certain conditions, distortion in Type I error is far less than is predicted by asymptotic theory. It is shown that these exceptions occur because the effect of autocorrelated errors is dependent on (a) the type of parameters (e.g., level change and/or slope change) required in the model, (b) the number of variables in the design matrix, and (c) the sample size. Because existing time-series methods perform poorly with small samples, this may be a useful finding in some situations; however, a better general solution is to use a recently developed small-sample method. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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