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We consider a new class of scale estimators with 50% breakdown point. The estimators are defined as order statistics of certain subranges. They all have a finite-sample breakdown point of [n/2]/n, which is the best possible value. (Here, [...] denotes the integer part.) One estimator in this class has the same influence function as the median absolute deviation and the least median of squares (LMS) scale estimator (i.e., the length of the shortest half), but its finite-sample efficiency is higher. If we consider the standard deviation of a subsample instead of its range, we obtain a different class of 50% breakdown estimators. This class contains the least trimmed squares (LTS) scale estimator. Simulation shows that the LTS scale estimator is nearly unbiased, so it does not need a small-sample correction factor. Surprisingly, the efficiency of the LTS scale estimator is less than that of the LMS scale estimator. 相似文献
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Ordinal regression is used for modelling an ordinal response variable as a function of some explanatory variables. The classical technique for estimating the unknown parameters of this model is Maximum Likelihood (ML). The lack of robustness of this estimator is formally shown by deriving its breakdown point and its influence function. To robustify the procedure, a weighting step is added to the Maximum Likelihood estimator, yielding an estimator with bounded influence function. We also show that the loss in efficiency due to the weighting step remains limited. A diagnostic plot based on the Weighted Maximum Likelihood estimator allows to detect outliers of different types in a single plot. 相似文献
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We propose to use multilevel discrete-time hazard models to assess the impact of societal and individual level covariates on the timing and occurrence of third births. We focus mainly on the impact of educational attainment on third births across 15 European countries. From the analysis in this paper, the effect of education on the propensity to have a third child is found to be negative. This education effect is not significantly weakened by the Nordic countries, but living in Scandinavia does increase the hazard for a third birth. 相似文献
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Nonparametric correlation estimators as the Kendall and Spearman correlation are widely used in the applied sciences. They
are often said to be robust, in the sense of being resistant to outlying observations. In this paper we formally study their
robustness by means of their influence functions and gross-error sensitivities. Since robustness of an estimator often comes
at the price of an increased variance, we also compute statistical efficiencies at the normal model. We conclude that both
the Spearman and Kendall correlation estimators combine a bounded and smooth influence function with a high efficiency. In
a simulation experiment we compare these nonparametric estimators with correlations based on a robust covariance matrix estimator. 相似文献
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Christophe Croux Gentiane Haesbroeck Kristel Joossens 《Revue canadienne de statistique》2008,36(1):157-174
Logistic regression is frequently used for classifying observations into two groups. Unfortunately there are often outlying observations in a data set and these might affect the estimated model and the associated classification error rate. In this paper, the authors study the effect of observations in the training sample on the error rate by deriving influence functions. They obtain a general expression for the influence function of the error rate, and they compute it for the maximum likelihood estimator as well as for several robust logistic discrimination procedures. Besides being of interest in their own right, the influence functions are also used to derive asymptotic classification efficiencies of different logistic discrimination rules. The authors also show how influential points can be detected by means of a diagnostic plot based on the values of the influence function 相似文献
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The authors consider a robust linear discriminant function based on high breakdown location and covariance matrix estimators. They derive influence functions for the estimators of the parameters of the discriminant function and for the associated classification error. The most B‐robust estimator is determined within the class of multivariate S‐estimators. This estimator, which minimizes the maximal influence that an outlier can have on the classification error, is also the most B‐robust location S‐estimator. A comparison of the most B‐robust estimator with the more familiar biweight S‐estimator is made. 相似文献
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Many robust regression estimators are defined by minimizing a measure of spread of the residuals. An accompanying R
2-measure, or multiple correlation coefficient, is then easily obtained. In this paper, local robustness properties of these
robust R
2-coefficients are investigated. It is also shown how confidence intervals for the population multiple correlation coefficient
can be constructed in the case of multivariate normality. 相似文献
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We study a group lasso estimator for the multivariate linear regression model that accounts for correlated error terms. A block coordinate descent algorithm is used to compute this estimator. We perform a simulation study with categorical data and multivariate time series data, typical settings with a natural grouping among the predictor variables. Our simulation studies show the good performance of the proposed group lasso estimator compared to alternative estimators. We illustrate the method on a time series data set of gene expressions. 相似文献