################################################## ### Load libraries ################################################## library(broom) library(car) library(corrr) library(tidyverse) library(patchwork) ################################################## ### Import and prepare data ################################################## slid = read_csv("data/slid.csv") head(slid) ################################################## ### Scatterplots of Y versus X ################################################## ggplot(data = slid, aes(x = age, y = wages)) + geom_point() + geom_smooth(method = "lm", se = FALSE) + theme_bw() + xlab("Age (in years)") + ylab("Hourly wage rate") ggplot(data = slid, aes(x = education, y = wages)) + geom_point() + geom_smooth(method = "lm", se = FALSE) + theme_bw() + xlab("Education (in years)") + ylab("Hourly wage rate") ggplot(data = slid, aes(x = male, y = wages)) + geom_point() + geom_smooth(method = "lm", se = FALSE) + theme_bw() + xlab("Male") + ylab("Hourly wage rate") ################################################## ### Function to create residual plots ################################################## residual_plots = function(object){ # Get residuals and fitted values aug_lm = broom::augment(object) # Create residual plot p1 = ggplot(data = aug_lm, aes(x =.resid)) + educate::stat_density_confidence(model = "normal") + geom_density() + theme_light() + xlab("Residuals") + ylab("Probability Density") # Create residual plot p2 = ggplot(data = aug_lm, aes(x =.fitted, y = .resid)) + geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dashed") + geom_point() + geom_smooth(method = "loess", se = TRUE) + theme_light() + xlab("Fitted values") + ylab("Residuals") return(p1 | p2) } ################################################## ### Fit OLS model ################################################## # Fit model lm.1 = lm(wages ~ 1 + age + education + male, data = slid) # Examine residual plots residual_plots(lm.1) # Fit and evaluate interaction model lm.2 = lm(wages ~ 1 + age + education + male + age:education, data = slid) residual_plots(lm.2) ################################################## ### Variance stabilkizing transformations ################################################## # Create transformed Ys slid = slid %>% mutate( sqrt_wages = sqrt(wages), ln_wages = log(wages) ) # Fit and evaluate transformed models lm_sqrt = lm(sqrt_wages ~ 1 + age + education + male, data = slid) residualPlot(lm_sqrt) lm_ln = lm(ln_wages ~ 1 + age + education + male, data = slid) residualPlot(lm_ln) ################################################## ### Box-Cox transformation ################################################## powerTransform(lm.1) # Likelihood profile plot boxCox(lm.1, lambda = seq(from = -2, to = 2, by = 1/10)) # Transform Y according to Box-Cox transformation slid = slid %>% mutate( bc_wages = (wages ^ 0.086 - 1) / 0.086 ) # Fit and evaluate model lm_bc = lm(bc_wages ~ 1 + age + education + male, data = slid) residual_plots(lm_bc) tidy(lm_bc) ################################################## ### WLS estimation: Known residual variances ################################################## # Enter y vector y = c(17.3, 17.1, 16.4, 16.4, 16.1, 16.2) # Create design matrix X = matrix( data = c(rep(1, 6), 21, 20 , 19, 18, 17, 16), ncol = 2 ) # Compute OLS estimates b = solve(t(X) %*% X) %*% t(X) %*% y #Compute coefficients e = y - X %*% b # Compute residuals sigma2_e = t(e) %*% e / (6 - 1 - 1) # Compute sigma2_e V_b = as.numeric(sigma2_e) * solve(t(X) %*% X) # Compute var-cov matrix for coefficients sqrt(diag(V_b)) # Compute SEs for coefficients # Alternatively... lm.ols = lm(y ~ 1 + X[ , 2]) tidy(lm.ols, conf.int = TRUE) ################################################## ### Fit WLS model ################################################## # Set up weight matrix, W, to estimate with WLS class_sd = c(5.99, 3.94, 1.90, 0.40, 5.65, 2.59) w_i = 1 / (class_sd ^ 2) W = diag(w_i) W # Compute coefficients b_wls = solve(t(X) %*% W %*% X) %*% t(X) %*% W %*% y b_wls # Compute standard errors for coefficients e_wls = y - X %*% b_wls #Compute errors from WLS mse_wls = (t(W %*% e_wls) %*% e_wls) / (6 - 1 - 1) #Compute MSE estimate v_b_wls = as.numeric(mse_wls) * solve(t(X) %*% W %*% X) #Compute variance-covariance matrix for b sqrt(diag(v_b_wls)) #Compute SEs for b ################################################## ### WLS estimation: Unknown error variances -- Using lm() function ################################################## # Create weights vector w_i = 1 / (class_sd ^ 2) # Fit WLS model lm_wls = lm(y ~ 1 + X[ , 2], weights = w_i) tidy(lm_wls, conf.int = TRUE) ################################################## ### WLS estimation: Unknown error variances ################################################## # Step 1: Fit the OLS regression lm_step_1 = lm(wages ~ 1 + age + education + male + age:education, data = slid) # Step 2: Obtain the residuals and square them out_1 = augment(lm_step_1) %>% mutate( e_sq = .resid ^ 2 ) # Step 2: Regresss e^2 on the predictors from Step 1 lm_step_2 = lm(e_sq ~ 1 + age + education + male + age:education, data = out_1) # Step 3: Obtain the fitted values from Step 2 y_hat = fitted(lm_step_2) # Step 4: Create the weights w_i = 1 / (y_hat ^ 2) # Step 5: Use the fitted values as weights in the WLS lm_step_5 = lm(wages ~ 1 + age + education + male + age:education, data = slid, weights = w_i) # Examine residual plots residual_plots(lm_step_5) # Examine coefficient-level output tidy(lm_step_5) ################################################## ### Huber-White sandwich estimates of the SEs ################################################## # Fit OLS model lm.1 = lm(wages ~ 1 + age + education + male, data = slid) # Design matrix X = model.matrix(lm.1) # Sigma matrix e_squared = augment(lm.1)$.resid ^ 2 Sigma = e_squared * diag(3997) # Variance-covariance matrix for B V_b_huber_white = solve(t(X) %*% X) %*% t(X) %*% Sigma %*% X %*% solve(t(X) %*% X) # Compute SEs sqrt(diag(V_b_huber_white)) ################################################## ### Huber-White (modified) sandwich estimates of the SEs ################################################## # Sigma matrix e_squared = augment(lm.1)$.resid ^ 2 / ((1 - augment(lm.1)$.hat) ^ 2) Sigma = e_squared * diag(3997) # Variance-covariance matrix for B V_b_huber_white_mod = solve(t(X) %*% X) %*% t(X) %*% Sigma %*% X %*% solve(t(X) %*% X) # Compute SEs sqrt(diag(V_b_huber_white_mod))