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A Modified Breusch–Pagan Test for Detecting Heteroscedasticity in the Presence of Outliers

Received: 1 November 2021    Accepted: 26 November 2021    Published: 29 December 2021
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Abstract

Heteroscedasticity is a problem that arises in regression analysis for a variety of causes. This problem impacts both the estimation and test procedures and it is therefore critical to be able to detect the problem and address it. The presence of outliers is a regular occurrence in data analysis and the detection of heteroscedasticity in the presence of outliers poses lots of difficulty for most of the existing methods. In this paper, a modified Breusch-Pagan test for heteroscedasticity in the presence of outliers was proposed. The modified test is obtained by substituting non-robust components in the Breusch-Pagan test with robust procedures which makes the modified Breusch-Pagan test to be unaffected by outliers. Monte Carlo simulations and real data sets were used to investigate the performance of the newly proposed test. The probability value (p–value) and power of all methods considered in this study were computed and the results indicate that the modified robust version of Breusch-Pagan test outperformed the previous tests significantly. The proposed modified Breusch-Pagan test is therefore recommended for testing for heteroscedasticity in linear regression diagnosis, especially when the data sets evidently contain outliers.

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Journal (Volume 10, Issue 6)
DOI 10.11648/j.pamj.20211006.13
Page(s) 139-149
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Keywords

Heteroscedasticity, Outliers, Cook’s Distance, S-estimation, Modified Breusch-Pagan Test, Monte Carlo Simulations

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  • Department of Statistics, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

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