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Models where the Least Trimmed Squares and Least Median of Squares estimators are maximum likelihood

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  • Vanessa Berenguer-Rico

    () (University of Oxford)

  • Søren Johansen

    () (University of Copenhagen and CREATES)

  • Bent Nielsen

    () (University of Oxford)

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The Least Trimmed Squares (LTS) and Least Median of Squares (LMS) estimators are popular robust regression estimators. The idea behind the estimators is to find, for a given h, a sub-sample of h good observations among n observations and estimate the regression on that sub-sample. We find models, based on the normal or the uniform distribution respectively, in which these estimators are maximum likelihood. We provide an asymptotic theory for the location-scale case in those models. The LTS estimator is found to be sqrt(h) consistent and asymptotically standard normal. The LMS estimator is found to be h consistent and asymptotically Laplace.

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  • Vanessa Berenguer-Rico & Søren Johansen & Bent Nielsen, 2019. "Models where the Least Trimmed Squares and Least Median of Squares estimators are maximum likelihood," CREATES Research Papers 2019-15, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
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    Keywords

    Chebychev estimator; LMS; Uniform distribution; Least squares estimator; LTS; Normal distribution; Regression; Robust statistics;

    JEL classification:

    • C01 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Econometrics
    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General

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