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Area of Science:

  • Statistics
  • Econometrics
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Empirical analyses often involve ordinal categorical response variables.
  • Researchers frequently model these as continuous variables using linear models.
  • Existing methods for categorical covariates (Haber, 1985) do not extend well to continuous covariates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate and improve parameter estimation for linear models with ordinal categorical responses and continuous covariates.
  • To address the limitations of ordinary least squares (OLS) when variance homogeneity is violated.
  • To propose and assess an estimated generalized least squares (EGLS) estimator.

Main Methods:

  • Discussed ordinary least squares (OLS) for ordinal data with continuous covariates, noting its limitations under non-homogeneous variance.
  • Introduced a consistent variance estimate (White, 1980) for OLS parameter estimates.
  • Proposed and evaluated an estimated generalized least squares (EGLS) estimator.

Main Results:

  • Ordinary least squares (OLS) parameter estimates are unbiased and consistent but variance estimates can be biased and inconsistent.
  • The proposed variance estimate (White, 1980) provides a consistent estimate of the true variance for OLS.
  • The estimated generalized least squares (EGLS) estimator demonstrates improved efficiency compared to OLS.

Conclusions:

  • Standard OLS methods can yield biased variance estimates for ordinal data with continuous covariates.
  • The EGLS estimator offers a more reliable and efficient approach for analyzing such data.
  • Empirical comparisons validate the advantages of EGLS over OLS and maximum likelihood (ML) in specific contexts.