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Record W4283217532 · doi:10.1111/obes.12511

Testing the Presence of Outliers in Regression Models*

2022· article· en· W4283217532 on OpenAlexaff
Xiyu Jiao, Felix Pretis

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicFiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
FundersBritish AcademyRobertson Foundation
KeywordsOutlierEconometricsStatisticsRegression analysisLinear regressionRegressionScalingSimple linear regressionMathematics

Abstract

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We propose two sets of tests for the overall presence of outliers in regression models. First, ‘simple’ tests on whether the proportion and the number of detected outliers deviate from their expected values. Second, ‘scaling’ tests on whether the proportion of outliers decreases with the cut‐off used to detect outliers. We apply our tests to a panel difference‐in‐differences model of transport CO2 emissions in response to the introduction of North America's first major carbon tax. Our tests show the presence of significant outliers in the un‐taxed control group, which results in an overestimation of the estimated impacts of the tax.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.075
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.344
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.075
Threshold uncertainty score0.399

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0750.344
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.003
Bibliometrics0.0040.005
Science and technology studies0.0020.005
Scholarly communication0.0040.006
Open science0.0050.005
Research integrity0.0040.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.169 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations24
Published2022
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