## Weak convergence of the empirical process of residuals in linear models with many parameters.(English)Zbl 1012.62016

Summary: When fitting, by least squares, a linear model (with an intercept term) with $$p$$ parameters to $$n$$ data points, the asymptotic behavior of the residual empirical process is shown to be the same as in the single sample problem provided $$p^3 \log^2 (p) /n \to 0$$ for any error density having finite variance and a bounded first derivative. No further conditions are imposed on the sequence of design matrices. The result is extended to more general estimates with the property that the average error and average squared error in the fitted values are of the same order as for least squares.

### MSC:

 62E20 Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics 62J05 Linear regression; mixed models
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