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Robust estimation of heteroscedastic regression models: a brief overview and new proposals

Methodology 2023-11-08 v2

Abstract

We collect robust proposals given in the field of regression models with heteroscedastic errors. Our motivation stems from the fact that the practitioner frequently faces the confluence of two phenomena in the context of data analysis: non--linearity and heteroscedasticity. The impact of heteroscedasticity on the precision of the estimators is well--known, however the conjunction of these two phenomena makes handling outliers more difficult. An iterative procedure to estimate the parameters of a heteroscedastic non--linear model is considered. The studied estimators combine weighted MMMM-regression estimators, to control the impact of high leverage points, and a robust method to estimate the parameters of the variance function.

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@article{arxiv.2311.02822,
  title  = {Robust estimation of heteroscedastic regression models: a brief overview and new proposals},
  author = {Conceição Amado and Ana M. Bianco and Graciela Boente and Isabel M. Rodrigues},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.02822},
  year   = {2023}
}