Zhu, Hongtu; Zhang, Heping A diagnostic procedure based on local influence. (English) Zbl 1108.62031 Biometrika 91, No. 3, 579-589 (2004). Summary: R. D. Cook’s [J. R. Stat. Soc., Ser. B 48, 133–169 (1986; Zbl 0608.62041)] normal curvature measure is useful for sensitivity analysis of model assumptions in statistical models. However, there is no rigorous approach based on the normal curvature for addressing two fundamental issues: to assess the extent of discrepancy between an assumed model and the underlying model from which the data are generated, and to identify suspicious data points for which the discrepancy is most evident. Our purpose is to establish a theoretically sound procedure for resolving these issues for case-weight perturbation under the framework of independent distributions. We show that the local influence measure, Cook’s distance and likelihood distance are asymptotically equivalent. A diagnostic procedure, based on local influence, is proposed for evaluating model misspecification and for detecting influential points simultaneously. We analyse two real datasets. Cited in 24 Documents MSC: 62F35 Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) 62J20 Diagnostics, and linear inference and regression Keywords:Case weight; Cook’s distance; Likelihood displacement; Local influence measure; Model misspecification; Normal curvature Citations:Zbl 0608.62041 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{H. Zhu} and \textit{H. Zhang}, Biometrika 91, No. 3, 579--589 (2004; Zbl 1108.62031) Full Text: DOI