Partial Leverage

Partial leverage is used to measure the contribution of the individual independent variables to the leverage of each observation. That is, if hi is the ith row of the diagonal of the hat matrix, the partial leverage is a measure of how hi changes as a variable is added to the regression model.

The partial leverage is computed as:

\left(\mathrm{PL}_j\right)_i = \frac{\left(X_{j\bullet}\right)_i^2}{\sum_{k=1}^n\left(X_{j\bullet}\right)_k^2}

where

j = index of independent variable
i = index of observation
Xjยท = residuals from regressing Xj against the remaining independent variables

Note that the partial leverage is the leverage of the ith point in the partial regression plot for the jth variable. Data points with large partial leverage for an independent variable can exert undue influence on the selection of that variable in automatic regression model building procedures.

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