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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
  • Bent Nielsen
  • Søren Johansen

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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 h 1/2 consistent and asymptotically standard normal. The LMS estimator is found to be h consistent and asymptotically Laplace.

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  • Vanessa Berenguer Rico & Bent Nielsen & Søren Johansen, 2019. "Models where the Least Trimmed Squares and Least Median of Squares estimators are maximum likelihood," Economics Series Working Papers 879, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

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