On Second order correctness of Bootstrap in Logistic Regression

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Main Authors: Das, Debraj, Das, Priyam
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Das, Priyam
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Das, Priyam
contents In the fields of clinical trials, biomedical surveys, marketing, banking, with dichotomous response variable, the logistic regression is considered as an alternative convenient approach to linear regression. In this paper, we develop a novel bootstrap technique based on perturbation resampling method for approximating the distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the regression parameter vector. We establish second order correctness of the proposed bootstrap method after proper studentization and smoothing. It is shown that inferences drawn based on the proposed bootstrap method are more accurate compared to that based on asymptotic normality. The main challenge in establishing second order correctness remains in the fact that the response variable being binary, the resulting MLE has a lattice structure. We show the direct bootstrapping approach fails even after studentization. We adopt smoothing technique developed in Lahiri (1993) to ensure that the smoothed studentized version of the MLE has a density. Similar smoothing strategy is employed to the bootstrap version also to achieve second order correct approximation.
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Das, Debraj
Das, Priyam
Statistics Theory
Methodology
62J12 (primary) 62F40, 62E20 (secondary)
In the fields of clinical trials, biomedical surveys, marketing, banking, with dichotomous response variable, the logistic regression is considered as an alternative convenient approach to linear regression. In this paper, we develop a novel bootstrap technique based on perturbation resampling method for approximating the distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the regression parameter vector. We establish second order correctness of the proposed bootstrap method after proper studentization and smoothing. It is shown that inferences drawn based on the proposed bootstrap method are more accurate compared to that based on asymptotic normality. The main challenge in establishing second order correctness remains in the fact that the response variable being binary, the resulting MLE has a lattice structure. We show the direct bootstrapping approach fails even after studentization. We adopt smoothing technique developed in Lahiri (1993) to ensure that the smoothed studentized version of the MLE has a density. Similar smoothing strategy is employed to the bootstrap version also to achieve second order correct approximation.
title On Second order correctness of Bootstrap in Logistic Regression
topic Statistics Theory
Methodology
62J12 (primary) 62F40, 62E20 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01615