The Cost of Adding Parameters to a Model
模型增加参数的代价
SUMMARY For a general regression model with n independent observations we consider the variance of the estimate of a quantity of interest under two scenarios. One scenario is where all the parameters are estimated from the data; the other scenario is where a subset of the parameters is assumed known at their true values and the remaining parameters are estimated. We focus on quantities of interest which are defined on the scale of the response variable. We show that, under…