Journal
COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-SIMULATION AND COMPUTATION
Volume 51, Issue 4, Pages 2039-2052Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2019.1691732
Keywords
Isotonic regression; Partially linear models; Robust estimation; Robust regression; Semi-parametric estimators
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- Universidad de Buenos Aires [20020170100330BA]
- ANPYCT, Argentina [PICT-201-0377]
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Partially linear models are important tools in statistical modeling, which combine the flexibility of non-parametric models and the simple interpretation of linear models. Monotonicity constraints naturally appear in certain problems, but the current estimation methods become unreliable when atypical observations are present in the sample. This paper proposes a robust estimation method, which is applied and compared to existing methods in real data sets and Monte Carlo simulations.
Partially linear models are important tools in statistical modeling, combining the flexibility of non-parametric models and the simple interpretation of linear models. Monotonicity constraints appear naturally in certain problems when the response is known to increase with one of the covariates. Estimation methods for partially linear models with monotonicity constraints have been proposed in recent years. These methods have a good performance when all the observations follow the assumed model. However, if a small proportion of atypical observations is present in the sample, these estimators become unreliable. A robust estimation method for these models is proposed and applied to two real data sets. A Monte Carlo simulation study is performed, in which the proposed estimators are compared to existing ones in different situations, both with clean and contaminated samples.
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