Leverage Influential Point and Outlier: Diagnostics (2024)

In this post, a discussion about diagnostics for a Leverage Influential point and outlier will be made. In a regression analysis, certain observations may play a role in influencing the outcomes of the fitted model and its estimates. These observations may be classified as outliers, leverage, and influential points. Outliers, …

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Role of Hat Matrix in Regression Analysis

The post is about the importance and role of the Hat Matrix in Regression Analysis. Hat matrix is a $n\times n$ symmetric and idempotent matrix with many special properties that play an important role in the diagnostics of regression analysis by transforming the vector of observed responses $Y$ into the …

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