Homoscedastic controlled calibration model

Abstract

In the context of the usual calibration model, we consider the case in which the independent variable is unobservable, but a pre-fixed value on its surrogate is available. Thus, considering controlled variables and assuming that the measurement errors have equal variances we propose a new calibration model. Likelihood based methodology is used to estimate the model parameters and the Fisher information matrix is used to construct a confidence interval for the unknown value of the regressor variable. A simulation study is carried out to asses the effect of the measurement error on the estimation of the parameter of interest. This new approach is illustrated with an example.