Residual analysis in the generalized growth curve model
摘要
In this paper, we consider the generalized growth curve model. The tensor residual is formulated and then transformed into a matrix residual through matricization. The main objective is to analyze this residual in the generalized growth curve model. It is shown that this residual is obtained by projecting the observations onto the space orthogonal to the space generated by the design matrices. This space is decomposed into three orthogonal spaces and the new residuals are obtained by projecting the observations on the resulting spaces. The interpretation and properties of the residuals based on their first two moments are discussed. It turns out that the residuals are symmetrically distributed around zero mean and uncorrelated. The dispersion matrices of the residuals and their covariance with the estimated model are provided. A simulation study and real dataset were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed tensor residual.