Linear regression

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Linear regression models

For the regression case, the statistical model is as follows. Given a (random) sample $(Y_i,X_{i1},\dots ,X_{ip}),i=1,\dots ,n$ the relation between the observations Y_i and the independent variables X_ij is formulated as

$Y_i={\beta }_0+{\beta }_1{\varphi }_1(X_{i1})+\cdots +{\beta }_p{\varphi }_p(X_{ip})+{\epsilon }_{i}i=1,\dots ,n$

where ${\varphi }_1,\dots ,{\varphi }_p$ may be nonlinear functions. In the above, the quantities ε_i are random variables representing errors in the relationship. The "linear" part of the designation relates to the appearance of the regression coefficients, β_j in a linear way in the above relationship. Alternatively, one may say that the predicted values corresponding to the above model, namely

${\hat{Y}}_i={\beta }_0+{\beta }_1{\varphi }_1(X_{i1})+\cdots +{\beta }_p{\varphi }_p(X_{ip})(i=1,\dots ,n),$

are linear functions of the β_j.

Given that estimation is undertaken on the basis of a least squares analysis, estimates of the unknown parameters β_j are determined by minimising a sum of squares function

$S=\sum _{i=1}^n{(Y_i-{\beta }_0-{\beta }_1{\varphi }_1(X_{i1})-\cdots -{\beta }_p{\varphi }_p(X_{ip}))}^2.$

From this, it can readily be seen that the "linear" aspect of the model means the following:

• the function to be minimised is a quadratic function of the β_j for which minimisation is a relatively simple problem;
• the derivatives of the function are linear functions of the β_j making it easy to find the minimising values;
• the minimising values β_j are linear functions of the observations Y_i;
• the minimising values β_j are linear functions of the random errors ε_i which makes it relatively easy to determine the statistical properties of the estimated values of β_j.

Time series models

An example of a linear time series model is an autoregressive moving average model. Here the model for values {X_t} in a time series can be written in the form

$X_t=c+{\epsilon }_t+\sum _{i=1}^p{\phi }_i{X}_{t-i}+\sum _{i=1}^q{\theta }_i{\epsilon }_{t-i}.$

where again the quantities ε_t are random variables representing innovations which are new random effects that appear at a certain time but also affect values of X at later times. In this instance the use of the term "linear model" refers to the structure of the above relationship in representing X_t as a linear function of past values of the same time series and of current and past values of the innovations. This particular aspect of the structure means that it is relative simple to derive relations for the mean and covariance properties of the time series. Note that here the "linear" part of the term "linear model" is not referring to the coefficients φ_i and θ_i, as it would be in the case of a regression model, which looks structurally similar.

Other uses in statistics

There are some other instances where "nonlinear model" is used to contrast with a linearly structured model, although the term "linear model" is not usually applied. One example of this is nonlinear dimensionality reduction.

See also

• General linear model
• Linear system
• Statistical model