Robust Linear Models¶
[1]:
%matplotlib inline
[2]:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import statsmodels.api as sm
Estimation¶
Load data:
[3]:
data = sm.datasets.stackloss.load()
data.exog = sm.add_constant(data.exog)
Huber’s T norm with the (default) median absolute deviation scaling
[4]:
huber_t = sm.RLM(data.endog, data.exog, M=sm.robust.norms.HuberT())
hub_results = huber_t.fit()
print(hub_results.params)
print(hub_results.bse)
print(
hub_results.summary(
yname="y", xname=["var_%d" % i for i in range(len(hub_results.params))]
)
)
const -41.026498
AIRFLOW 0.829384
WATERTEMP 0.926066
ACIDCONC -0.127847
dtype: float64
const 9.791899
AIRFLOW 0.111005
WATERTEMP 0.302930
ACIDCONC 0.128650
dtype: float64
Robust linear Model Regression Results
==============================================================================
Dep. Variable: y No. Observations: 21
Model: RLM Df Residuals: 17
Method: IRLS Df Model: 3
Norm: HuberT
Scale Est.: mad
Cov Type: H1
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024
Time: 09:23:26
No. Iterations: 19
==============================================================================
coef std err z P>|z| [0.025 0.975]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
var_0 -41.0265 9.792 -4.190 0.000 -60.218 -21.835
var_1 0.8294 0.111 7.472 0.000 0.612 1.047
var_2 0.9261 0.303 3.057 0.002 0.332 1.520
var_3 -0.1278 0.129 -0.994 0.320 -0.380 0.124
==============================================================================
If the model instance has been used for another fit with different fit parameters, then the fit options might not be the correct ones anymore .
Huber’s T norm with ‘H2’ covariance matrix
[5]:
hub_results2 = huber_t.fit(cov="H2")
print(hub_results2.params)
print(hub_results2.bse)
const -41.026498
AIRFLOW 0.829384
WATERTEMP 0.926066
ACIDCONC -0.127847
dtype: float64
const 9.089504
AIRFLOW 0.119460
WATERTEMP 0.322355
ACIDCONC 0.117963
dtype: float64
Andrew’s Wave norm with Huber’s Proposal 2 scaling and ‘H3’ covariance matrix
[6]:
andrew_mod = sm.RLM(data.endog, data.exog, M=sm.robust.norms.AndrewWave())
andrew_results = andrew_mod.fit(scale_est=sm.robust.scale.HuberScale(), cov="H3")
print("Parameters: ", andrew_results.params)
Parameters: const -40.881796
AIRFLOW 0.792761
WATERTEMP 1.048576
ACIDCONC -0.133609
dtype: float64
See help(sm.RLM.fit)
for more options and module sm.robust.scale
for scale options
Comparing OLS and RLM¶
Artificial data with outliers:
[7]:
nsample = 50
x1 = np.linspace(0, 20, nsample)
X = np.column_stack((x1, (x1 - 5) ** 2))
X = sm.add_constant(X)
sig = 0.3 # smaller error variance makes OLS<->RLM contrast bigger
beta = [5, 0.5, -0.0]
y_true2 = np.dot(X, beta)
y2 = y_true2 + sig * 1.0 * np.random.normal(size=nsample)
y2[[39, 41, 43, 45, 48]] -= 5 # add some outliers (10% of nsample)
Example 1: quadratic function with linear truth¶
Note that the quadratic term in OLS regression will capture outlier effects.
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res = sm.OLS(y2, X).fit()
print(res.params)
print(res.bse)
print(res.predict())
[ 5.03671875 0.53535613 -0.01407333]
[0.45020929 0.06950624 0.00615023]
[ 4.68488555 4.95849583 5.22741696 5.49164894 5.75119175 6.00604542
6.25620992 6.50168527 6.74247147 6.97856851 7.20997639 7.43669512
7.6587247 7.87606511 8.08871638 8.29667848 8.49995144 8.69853523
8.89242987 9.08163536 9.26615169 9.44597886 9.62111688 9.79156575
9.95732545 10.11839601 10.2747774 10.42646964 10.57347273 10.71578666
10.85341144 10.98634706 11.11459352 11.23815083 11.35701898 11.47119798
11.58068782 11.68548851 11.78560004 11.88102241 11.97175563 12.0577997
12.13915461 12.21582036 12.28779696 12.3550844 12.41768269 12.47559182
12.5288118 12.57734262]
Estimate RLM:
[9]:
resrlm = sm.RLM(y2, X).fit()
print(resrlm.params)
print(resrlm.bse)
[ 4.98691806e+00 5.18800630e-01 -3.28929682e-03]
[0.13656441 0.0210837 0.00186558]
Draw a plot to compare OLS estimates to the robust estimates:
[10]:
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(12, 8))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot(x1, y2, "o", label="data")
ax.plot(x1, y_true2, "b-", label="True")
pred_ols = res.get_prediction()
iv_l = pred_ols.summary_frame()["obs_ci_lower"]
iv_u = pred_ols.summary_frame()["obs_ci_upper"]
ax.plot(x1, res.fittedvalues, "r-", label="OLS")
ax.plot(x1, iv_u, "r--")
ax.plot(x1, iv_l, "r--")
ax.plot(x1, resrlm.fittedvalues, "g.-", label="RLM")
ax.legend(loc="best")
[10]:
<matplotlib.legend.Legend at 0x7047e75d5f00>
Example 2: linear function with linear truth¶
Fit a new OLS model using only the linear term and the constant:
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X2 = X[:, [0, 1]]
res2 = sm.OLS(y2, X2).fit()
print(res2.params)
print(res2.bse)
[5.60396002 0.39462285]
[0.39204933 0.03378056]
Estimate RLM:
[12]:
resrlm2 = sm.RLM(y2, X2).fit()
print(resrlm2.params)
print(resrlm2.bse)
[5.09805856 0.48848331]
[0.10971726 0.00945368]
Draw a plot to compare OLS estimates to the robust estimates:
[13]:
pred_ols = res2.get_prediction()
iv_l = pred_ols.summary_frame()["obs_ci_lower"]
iv_u = pred_ols.summary_frame()["obs_ci_upper"]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 6))
ax.plot(x1, y2, "o", label="data")
ax.plot(x1, y_true2, "b-", label="True")
ax.plot(x1, res2.fittedvalues, "r-", label="OLS")
ax.plot(x1, iv_u, "r--")
ax.plot(x1, iv_l, "r--")
ax.plot(x1, resrlm2.fittedvalues, "g.-", label="RLM")
legend = ax.legend(loc="best")
Last update:
Mar 18, 2024