Asymptotic confidence interval for R2 in multiple linear regression

Abstract

Following White's approach of robust multiple linear regression, we give asymptotic confidence intervals for the multiple correlation coefficient R2 under minimal moment conditions. We also give the asymptotic joint distribution of the empirical estimators of the individual R2's. Through different sets of simulations, we show that the procedure is indeed robust (contrary to the procedure involving the near exact distribution of the empirical estimator of R2 is the multivariate Gaussian case) and can be also applied to count linear regression.