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We discuss in this paper the assessment of local influence in univariate elliptical linear regression models. This class includes all symmetric continuous distributions, such as normal, Student-t, Pearson VII, exponential power and logistic, among others. We derive the appropriate matrices for assessing the local influence on the parameter estimates and on predictions by considering as influence measures the likelihood displacement and a distance based on the Pearson residual. Two examples with real data are given for illustration.
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Galea, M., Paula, G.A. & Uribe-Opazo, M. On influence diagnostic in univariate elliptical linear regression models. Statistical Papers 44, 23–45 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-002-0132-9
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