A robust proposal of estimation for the sufficient dimension reduction problem

Andrea Bergesio (), María Eugenia Szretter Noste () and Víctor J. Yohai ()
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Andrea Bergesio: Universidad Nacional del Litoral
María Eugenia Szretter Noste: Universidad de Buenos Aires
Víctor J. Yohai: Universidad de Buenos Aires

TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 2021, vol. 30, issue 3, No 11, 758-783

Abstract: Abstract In nonparametric regression contexts, when the number of covariables is large, we face the curse of dimensionality. One way to deal with this problem when the sample is not large enough is using a reduced number of linear combinations of the explanatory variables that contain most of the information about the response variable. This leads to the so-called sufficient reduction problem. The purpose of this paper is to obtain robust estimators of a sufficient dimension reduction, that is, estimators which are not very much affected by the presence of a small fraction of outliers in the data. One way to derive a sufficient dimension reduction is by means of the principal fitted components (PFC) model. We obtain robust estimations for the parameters of this model and the corresponding sufficient dimension reduction based on a $$\tau $$ τ -scale ( $$\tau $$ τ -estimators). Strong consistency of these estimators under weak assumptions of the underlying distribution is proven. The $$\tau $$ τ -estimators for the PFC model are computed using an iterative algorithm. A Monte Carlo study compares the performance of $$\tau $$ τ -estimators and maximum likelihood estimators. The results show clear advantages for $$\tau $$ τ -estimators in the presence of outlier contamination and only small loss of efficiency when outliers are absent. A proposal to select the dimension of the reduction space based on cross-validation is given. These estimators are implemented in R language through functions contained in the package tauPFC. As the PFC model is a special case of multivariate reduced-rank regression, our proposal can be applied directly to this model as well.

Keywords: $$\tau $$ τ -Estimators; Principal fitted components; Multivariate reduced-rank regression; Robustness; 62F35 Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference); 62F12 Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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