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[Identify influential points].

H Lin·Y Su
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Influential points are the points with excessive influence on result and detected by influential function theta-theta(i). theta-theta(i) is a multidimensional vector. For convenience, people always consider some quantitative function g (theta-theta(i)) to measure the vector theta-theta(i), but how to define g is a difficult problem. This paper proposes a new quantitative diagnostic statistics for identifying influential points for all parametrical statistical analysis. The method is more appropriate than cook's method for regression analysis. In this study an example is used to illustrate the procedure in COX proportional hazard model.

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H Lin, Y Su. 1998-09-30. [Identify influential points].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11939058/

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