In this work, we consider the general linear model or its variants with the ordinary least squares, generalised least squares or restricted least squares estimators of the regression coefficients and variance. We propose a newly unified set of definitions for local sensitivity for both situations, one for the estimators of the regression coefficients, and the other for the estimators of the variance. Based on these definitions, we present the estimators’ sensitivity results.We include brief remarks...

Highly robust statistical and econometric methods have been developed not only as a diagnostic tool for standard methods, but they can be also used as self-standing methods for valid inference. Therefore the robust methods need to be equipped by their own diagnostic tools. This paper describes diagnostics for robust estimation of parameters in two econometric models derived from the linear regression. Both methods are special cases of the generalized method of moments estimator based on implicit...

We discuss, partly on examples, several intuitively unexpected results in a standard linear regression model. We demonstrate that direct observations of the regression curve at a given point can not be substituted by observations at two very close neighboring points. On the opposite, we show that observations at two distant design points improve the variance of the estimator. In an experiment with correlated observations we show somewhat unexpected conditions under which a design point gives no...