Empirical Likelihood for Semiparametric Varying-Coefficient Heteroscedastic Partially Linear Models

Consider the semiparametric varying-coefficient heteroscedastic partially linear model Y i = Xτiβ + Zτiα(Ti) + σiei,1 ≤ i ≤ n,where σ 2 i = f(Ui),β is a p × 1 column vector of unknown parameter,(Xi,Zi,Ti,Ui) are random design points,Y i are the response variables,α(·) is a q-dimensional vector of unknown functions,e i are random errors.For both cases that f(·) is known and unknown,we propose the empirical log-likelihood ratio statistics for the parameter β.For each case,a nonparametric version of Wilks’ theorem is derived.The results are then used to construct confidence regions of the parameter.Simulation studies are carried out to assess the performance of the empirical likelihood method.