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In this video, we explain regression assumptions such as normality of residuals, heteroskedasticity tests, and multicollinearity tests in R. We also discuss robust standard error and the remedy of multicollinearity.
00:00 Load Packages
1:40 Normality Tests (skewness, kurtosis)
4:55 Shapiro Wilk Test
5:56 QQ Plot
6:36 Heteroscedasticity (Breusch Pagan Test)
7:35 Breusch Godfrey Test
7:55 Remedy for Heteroscedasticity
9:22 Multicollinearity
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Welcome to the Data Hall YouTube channel. In this video we are going to talk about the
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regression assumptions in R. So we are going to discuss how do we test these regression assumptions
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and what are certain remedies that we can use to solve these issues. So first we are going to
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install the packages. I have already installed them so I'm not going to install it in this video
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but if you wish to install them you can use this command. We do install Momentus, LM test, Sandwich and Car library. These are the
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libraries that we are going to use for different purposes. For example we are going to use this
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Momentus for skewness at contours then we are going to use LM test for heteroscedasticity
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Sandwich for robustness standard test for robustness standard error to resolve the issue
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of heteroscedasticity and then we have this Car library which we are going to use for various
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inflation factor. So if you want to download this R script or the data that I'm going to use
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with this video you can download it from the link given in the description. So let's load the data
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we are going to use the auto data so if I can show you the auto data from the environment
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I have minimized the environment we have 74 observations and 12 variables. Let me show you
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the data we have different cars these are the make of the car, their model, their prices
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their mileage per gallon, the number of repairs and then there is the weight of the car and
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the length of the car. So what we are going to do is we are going to
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use certain regression model so what we are going to use is we are going to
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take price as a dependent variable and regress it on mileage weight and length
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So first we are going to test the normality of the residual for that we are going to run
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the regression using lm function specify the dependent variable the tedla sign and then the
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independent variables and then the data that I'm going to use I'm going to use the auto data that
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I have just loaded. Let me press control enter so the model had been executed although I cannot
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see the model in my console because I have to execute the second command which is summary model
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and we can see that we have their coefficient, their standard errors, their t test and their
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R square and other model fitness values. But what I am interested is in testing the normality of
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the residual because one of the assumptions is that the residuals should be normally distributed
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so we are not going to test the normality of each of the variable but we are going to test the
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normality of the residual by itself. So what we are going to do is we are going to extract
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the residual from this model so what we do is we use the razzit function and then specify the model
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that we have that we have created and we'll take this would extract the residual from the model
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and we would save these and this new object called residuals. So if I execute this it would create
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a vector that would save these residuals. Now what we are going to do is we are going to
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test the normality of this residual so we first test the skewness using the skewness kurtosis test
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this is coming from the momentous library so first we are going to execute the skewness function
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Okay so what we did is we didn't loaded the library so I'm just going to quickly load
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all the libraries okay let's get back press ctrl enter we get the skewness of residuals. Now
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ideally for normally distributed data the skewness should be close to zero
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the higher the skewness is from zero I mean the positive number indicates that it is positively
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skewed distribution and a negative number would indicate that it is a negatively distributed
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skewness. So currently our shape is positively skewed let's check kurtosis, kurtosis should be
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three and now this gives us the kurtosis rather than excess kurtosis if any test gives you excess
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kurtosis then you would have to then its value should be zero but in this case its value should
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be close to three. Now we can see that it is somewhat close to three right it isn't exactly
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three but it is somewhat closer to three so from that perspective let's move forward to
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now this gives us the skewness and kurtosis but it isn't a test per se right so what we are going
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to do is we are going to use certain test in this case we have Shapiro will test so what we do is
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we use Shapiro dot test function and it utilize it on the residuals that we just created
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What we are interested in is the p value so if p value is less than 0.05 then we say that the
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residuals are not normally distributed because the null hypothesis of Shapiro will test is
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normal distribution and the alternate hypothesis is that the series is not normally distributed
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So in this case because it is less than 0.05 we reject the null hypothesis in favor of alternate
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hypothesis which is that the data is not normally distributed so from Shapiro will test we can see
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that residuals are not normally distributed so this assumption is violated. Let's also look at
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a visualization using QQ plot we do QQ norm and then use the residuals this would create a QQ
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plot but we need a diagonal line that would come from QQ line. Now the closer the values are to
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this diagonal line the more closer this series is to a normal distributed series but in this case
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we can see that it deviates from that from that line and so it is not normally distributed
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Let's move towards heteroscedasticity let's test heteroscedasticity. So first we are going to do Bruch-Pagan test now the null hypothesis of Bruch-Pagan test is that
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the that the data is that the variants are homoscedastic whereas the alternate hypothesis
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is that they are heteroscedastic. So we are going to do BP test and specify the model rather than
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residuals right in the previous assumption we were testing the normality of residuals so we
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used residuals but in this case we are going to use model that we have created
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Okay so let's press control enter and it would give us certain values we are interested in the
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p-value and in this case it is less than 0.05 that means that the data is heteroscedastic
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we reject the null hypothesis of homoscedasticity in favor of the alternate
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hypothesis of heteroscedasticity. Similarly we have Bruch-Pagan test sorry Bruch-Godfrey test and the null and alternate hypothesis of Bruch-Godfrey test is exactly the same
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as of the Bruch-Pagan test again using Godfrey test we reject the null hypothesis of homoscedasticity
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So now we know that our data is heteroscedastic so what remedy do we have now remember when when
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the data is heteroscedastic the coefficients are not biased but our standard errors are either
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overestimated or underestimated so what we are going to do is let me take the screenshot of
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this test so I have taken the screenshot of this test so that we can compare it with the test that
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we are just going to perform so what we are going to do is we are going to the remedy is that we use
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robust standard error instead of the the normal standard error that we get for that we we are
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going to use this line of code now these two line of code are combinedly coming from the sandwich
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library and the LM test library this this coefficient test is coming from the LM test and
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then this one is coming from the sandwich library so if I execute this it would give me
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exactly the same coefficient as you can compare them side by side they are exactly the same
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coefficients but the standard errors are now different right so so so what it would do is it
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would this robust error would just as the name suggests would would apply a different formula
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and adjust error for that to cater that issue so let's move to multicollinearity and multicollinearity
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is when our independent variables are correlated for that first we check the correlation between our
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independent variables I have included the dependent variable but mainly we are interested in our
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independent variables we can see that the weight and length have quite a high correlation anything
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higher than 0.9 would be an indication of a multicollinearity it isn't a conclusion that
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there is multicollinearity but it is just an indication for more thorough understanding we
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should look into the variance inflation factor so what I do is we I use vif and specify the model
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and remember again I have to specify the model and we get these values of variance inflation factor
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so anything greater than 10 would specify that there is multicollinearity some some research
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paper suggests that it should be greater anything greater than 5 would be considered multicollinearity
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but anyways in our case we can see that there is multicollinearity because the variance inflation
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factor is greater than 10 so what we do is one of the remedy there are multiple remedies but one of
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the remedy is that we have to drop one of these multicollinear variable because they present the
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same information so what we do is we drop one of them so in this case let's drop length and include
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weight and let's execute the regression once again and see if if the variance inflation factor would
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resolve now you can see that I have executed the model again and using the new model test
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statistics I have executed the variance inflation factor and I can see that
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and the variance inflation factor has now reduced so I hope this video was useful do
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