R help - Feb 2010 - tests for measures of influence in regression

influence.measures gives several measures of influence for each  
observation (Cook's Distance, etc) and actually flags observations  
that it determines are influential by any of the measures. Looks  
good! But how does it discriminate between the influential and non- 
influential observations by each of the measures? Like does it do a  
Bonferroni-corrected t on the residuals identified by the influence  
measures or some other test?

Cheers,

Frank Tamborello, PhD
W. M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Health Information Sciences
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston


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I don't think this information can be found in the documentation, but you
can always just check the actual influence.measures() and print.infl() code to
find out. Most importantly, influence.measures() incldues the following code:

function (model)
{
    is.influential <- function(infmat, n) {
        k <- ncol(infmat) - 4
        if (n <= k)
            stop("too few cases, n < k")
        absmat <- abs(infmat)
        result <- cbind(absmat[, 1L:k] > 1, absmat[, k + 1] >
            3 * sqrt(k/(n - k)), abs(1 - infmat[, k + 2]) > (3 *
            k)/(n - k), pf(infmat[, k + 3], k, n - k) > 0.5,
            infmat[, k + 4] > (3 * k)/n)
        dimnames(result) <- dimnames(infmat)
        result
    }
    ...
    infmat <- cbind(dfbetas, dffit = dffits, cov.r = cov.ratio,
        cook.d = cooks.d, hat = h)
    ...
    is.inf <- is.influential(infmat, sum(h > 0))
    ...
}

So, a case is flagged if:

- any of its absolute dfbetas values are larger than 1, or
- its absolute dffits value is larger than 3*sqrt(k/(n-k)), or
- abs(1 - covratio) is larger than 3*k/(n-k), or
- its Cook's distance is larger than the 50% percentile of
  an F-distributio with k and n-k degrees of freedom, or
- its hatvalue is larger than 3*k/n,

where k denotes the number of model coefficients (e.g., k = 2 for simple
regression with the intercept included in the model).

Best,

--
Wolfgang Viechtbauer                        http://www.wvbauer.com/
Department of Methodology and Statistics    Tel: +31 (43) 388-2277
School for Public Health and Primary Care   Office Location:
Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616         Room B2.01 (second floor)
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> influence.measures gives several measures of influence for each
> observation (Cook's Distance, etc) and actually flags observations
> that it determines are influential by any of the measures. Looks
> good! But how does it discriminate between the influential and non-
> influential observations by each of the measures? Like does it do a
> Bonferroni-corrected t on the residuals identified by the influence
> measures or some other test?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank Tamborello, PhD
> W. M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellow
> School of Health Information Sciences
> University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
>
>
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>
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