car (version 0.8-4)

outlier.test: Bonferroni Outlier Test

Description

Reports the Bonferroni p-value for the most extreme observation. At present, there are methods for studentized residuals in linear and generalized linear models.

Usage

outlier.test(model, ...)

outlier.test.lm(model, labels=names(rstud))

outlier.test.glm(model, labels=names(rstud))

Arguments

model

a suitable model object.

labels

an optional vector of observation names.

...

not for the user.

Value

• an object of class outlier.test, which is normally just printed.

Details

For a linear model, the p-value reported is for the largest absolute studentized residual, using the $t$ distribution with degrees of freedom one less than the residual df for the model. For a generalized linear model, the largest absolute studentized residual is also used, but with the standard-normal distribution. The Bonferroni adjustment multiplies the usual two-sided p-value by the number of observations.

References

Cook, R. D. and Weisberg, S. (1984) Residuals and Influence in Regression. Wiley. Fox, J. (1997) Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related Methods. Sage. Williams, D. A. (1987) Generalized linear model diagnostics using the deviance and single case deletions. Applied Statistics 36, 181--191.

Examples

data(Duncan)
outlier.test(lm(prestige~income+education, data=Duncan))
##  max|rstudent| df unadjusted p Bonferroni p
##       3.134519 41  0.003177202    0.1429741
## 
## Observation: minister