On the asymptotic distribution of the least-squares estimators in unidentifiable models

  • Authors:
  • Taichi Hayasaka;Masashi Kitahara;Shiro Usui

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information and Computer Engineering, Toyota National College of Technology, Toyota, Aichi 471-8525, Japan;Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan;Laboratory for Neuroinformatics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Neural Computation
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In order to analyze the stochastic property of multilayered perceptrons or other learning machines, we deal with simpler models and derive the asymptotic distribution of the least-squares estimators of their parameters. In the case where a model is unidentified, we show different results from traditional linear models: the well-known property of asymptotic normality never holds for the estimates of redundant parameters.