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Heteroscedasticity often occurs when there is a large difference among the sizes of the observations. A classic example of heteroscedasticity is that of income versus expenditure on meals. A wealthy person may eat inexpensive food sometimes and expensive food at other times. A poor person will almost always eat inexpensive food.
In statistics, Bartlett's test, named after Maurice Stevenson Bartlett, [1] is used to test homoscedasticity, that is, if multiple samples are from populations with equal variances. [2] Some statistical tests, such as the analysis of variance , assume that variances are equal across groups or samples, which can be checked with Bartlett's test.
Plot with random data showing heteroscedasticity: The variance of the y-values of the dots increases with increasing values of x. In statistics , a sequence of random variables is homoscedastic ( / ˌ h oʊ m oʊ s k ə ˈ d æ s t ɪ k / ) if all its random variables have the same finite variance ; this is also known as homogeneity of variance.
Statistical tests are used to test the fit between a hypothesis and the data. [1] [2] Choosing the right statistical test is not a trivial task. [1]The choice of the test depends on many properties of the research question.
If the test statistic has a p-value below an appropriate threshold (e.g. p < 0.05) then the null hypothesis of homoskedasticity is rejected and heteroskedasticity assumed. If the Breusch–Pagan test shows that there is conditional heteroskedasticity, one could either use weighted least squares (if the source of heteroskedasticity is known) or ...
In statistics, the Wald test (named after Abraham Wald) assesses constraints on statistical parameters based on the weighted distance between the unrestricted estimate and its hypothesized value under the null hypothesis, where the weight is the precision of the estimate.
Weighted least squares (WLS), also known as weighted linear regression, [1] [2] is a generalization of ordinary least squares and linear regression in which knowledge of the unequal variance of observations (heteroscedasticity) is incorporated into the regression.
An alternative to the White test is the Breusch–Pagan test, where the Breusch-Pagan test is designed to detect only linear forms of heteroskedasticity. Under certain conditions and a modification of one of the tests, they can be found to be algebraically equivalent.