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Developing a ridge estimator for the gamma regression model
Author(s) -
Algamal Zakariya Yahya
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of chemometrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.47
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1099-128X
pISSN - 0886-9383
DOI - 10.1002/cem.3054
Subject(s) - multicollinearity , estimator , statistics , jackknife resampling , mathematics , mean squared error , variance inflation factor , regression analysis , ridge , regression , minimum variance unbiased estimator , monte carlo method , bias of an estimator , geography , cartography
The ridge regression model has been consistently demonstrated to be an attractive shrinkage method to reduce the effects of multicollinearity. The gamma regression model is a very popular model in the application when the response variable is positively skewed. However, it is known that multicollinearity negatively affects the variance of maximum likelihood estimator of the gamma regression coefficients. To address this problem, a gamma ridge regression model has been proposed. In this study, a new estimator is developed by proposing a modification of Jackknife estimator with gamma ridge regression model. Our Monte Carlo simulation results and the real data application suggest that the proposed estimator can bring significant improvement relative to other competitor estimators, in absolute bias and mean squared error.