Robust explicit estimators using the power-weighted repeated medians

Chanseok Park, Xuehong Gao and Min Wang

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2024, vol. 51, issue 8, 1590-1608

Abstract: This paper consists of two parts. The first part of the paper is to propose an explicit robust estimation method for the regression coefficients in simple linear regression based on the power-weighted repeated medians technique that has a tuning constant for dealing with the trade-offs between efficiency and robustness. We then investigate the lower and upper bounds of the finite-sample breakdown point of the proposed method. The second part of the paper is to show that based on the linearization of the cumulative distribution function, the proposed method can be applied to obtain robust parameter estimators for the Weibull and Birnbaum-Saunders distributions that are commonly used in both reliability and survival analysis. Numerical studies demonstrate that the proposed method performs well in a manner that is approximately comparable with the ordinary least squares method, whereas it is far superior in the presence of data contamination that occurs frequently in practice.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2023.2229969

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