Title

Jump Regression Analysis in R

Document Type

Student Presentation

Presentation Date

4-15-2019

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of Mathematics

Faculty Sponsor

Dr. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

Abstract

Regression analysis is a method of estimating the mean of response variable as a function of other explanatory variables. To use the simplest form, simple linear regression, one must make a strong assumption that the underlying function is linear. In literature, there are techniques such as local polynomial regression which only assumes that the underlying function is continuous. However, continuity assumption may still not be realistic in many situations. At first, I briefly mention a few methods to estimate the regression function when one can assume continuity, and then I describe two methods to estimate the regression function when there are finitely many jumps or discontinuities. In this project, I consider two cases: when the number of jumps is known, and when it is unknown. Next, I demonstrate how a practitioner can use these methods in various other situations, such as when one knows the prospective locations of the jumps, but not the total number of jumps. Finally, I show applications of some of these methods on a real data using my R functions.

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