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Area of Science:

  • Statistics
  • Econometrics
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Partially linear models are widely used in various fields.
  • Missing data in covariates poses significant challenges for statistical inference.
  • Existing methods may not adequately address missingness dependent on outcome and other covariates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop robust statistical inference methods for partially linear models with missing covariates.
  • To construct accurate confidence regions for regression parameters (beta) and smooth functions (nu(z)).
  • To evaluate the performance of the proposed methods.

Main Methods:

  • Empirical likelihood-based statistics are proposed.
  • Confidence regions for beta and nu(z) are constructed using these statistics.
  • Asymptotic properties of the statistics are derived, showing chi-squared distribution.

Main Results:

  • The proposed empirical likelihood statistics are asymptotically chi-squared distributed.
  • Simulation experiments demonstrate the finite sample performance of the methods.
  • The methods are successfully applied to a real-world AIDS clinical trial dataset.

Conclusions:

  • The developed empirical likelihood methods offer a valid approach for statistical inference in partially linear models with missing covariates.
  • The methods are effective in practice, as shown by their application to clinical trial data.
  • This work contributes to the statistical toolkit for handling complex missing data scenarios.