Bayesian jackknife empirical likelihood for the error variance in linear regression models

Abstract

Variance estimation is fundamental in the statistical inference. Due to the nonlinearity of the variance estimator, Lin et al. [Jackknife empirical likelihood for the error variance in linear models. J Nonparametr Stat. 2017;29:151–166.] proposed the jackknife empirical likelihood method for the error variance in a linear regression model. However, people may have some prior information about the error variance. In this article, we propose the Bayesian jackknife empirical likelihood (BJEL) for the error variance in a linear regression model. The validity of the proposed method is verified, and the asymptotic normal properties for the BJEL are also established. A simulation study shows that the new approach for the small sample performs better than its frequentist counterpart. Two real data sets are also used to illustrate the proposed methods.