Estimating a bivariate linear relationship

Details Estimating a bivariate linear relationship Estimating a bivariate linear relationship

2012-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/1202.0957v1

Bayesian Analysis (2011) 6: 727-754

Mathematics

Statistics Theory

27 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1214/11-BA627

Solutions of the bivariate, linear errors-in-variables estimation problem with unspecified errors are expected to be invariant under interchange and scaling of the coordinates. The appealing model of normally distributed true values and errors is unidentified without additional information. I propose a prior density that incorporates the fact that the slope and variance parameters together determine the covariance matrix of the unobserved true values but is otherwise diffuse. The marginal posterior density of the slope is invariant to interchange and scaling of the coordinates and depends on the data only through the sample correlation coefficient and ratio of standard deviations. It covers the interval between the two ordinary least squares estimates but diminishes rapidly outside of it. I introduce the R package leiv for computing the posterior density, and I apply it to examples in astronomy and method comparison.

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