TESTING HETEROSCEDASTICITY FOR REGRESSION MODELS BASED ON PROJECTIONS

Abstract

In this paper we propose a new test of heteroscedasticity for parametric regression models and partial linear regression models in high dimensional settings. When the dimension of covariates is large, existing tests of heteroscedasticity perform badly due to the \curse of dimensionality". To attack this problem, we construct a test of heteroscedasticity by using a projection-based empirical process. We study the asymptotic properties of the test statistic under the null hypothesis and alternative hypotheses. It is shown that the test can detect local alternatives departure from the null hypothesis at the fastest possible rate in hypothesis testing. As the limiting null distribution of the test statistic is not distribution free, we propose a residual-based bootstrap. The validity of the bootstrap approximations is investigated. We present some simulation results to show the finite sample performances of the test. Two real data analyses are conducted for illustration.