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In this work, we propose a non-parametric and robust change detection algorithm to detect multiple change points in time series data under contamination. The contamination model is sufficiently general, in that, the most common model used…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-24 Sujay Bhatt , Guanhua Fang , Ping Li

We investigate the performance of robust estimates of multivariate location under nonstandard data contamination models such as componentwise outliers (i.e., contamination in each variable is independent from the other variables). This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-04 Fatemah Alqallaf , Stefan Van Aelst , Victor J. Yohai , Ruben H. Zamar

Real data often contain anomalous cases, also known as outliers. These may spoil the resulting analysis but they may also contain valuable information. In either case, the ability to detect such anomalies is essential. A useful tool for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-13 Peter J. Rousseeuw , Mia Hubert

There is a great need for robust techniques in data mining and machine learning contexts where many standard techniques such as principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis are inherently susceptible to outliers.…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-28 Garth Tarr , Samuel Müller , Neville C. Weber

We study the algorithmic problem of robust mean estimation of an identity covariance Gaussian in the presence of mean-shift contamination. In this contamination model, we are given a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ generated i.i.d. via the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ilias Diakonikolas , Giannis Iakovidis , Daniel M. Kane , Thanasis Pittas

Classical semiparametric inference with missing outcome data is not robust to contamination of the observed data and a single observation can have arbitrarily large influence on estimation of a parameter of interest. This sensitivity is…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-02 Eva Cantoni , Xavier de Luna

Linear mixed models (LMMs) are a popular class of methods for analyzing longitudinal and clustered data. However, such models can be sensitive to outliers, and this can lead to biased inference on model parameters and inaccurate prediction…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-28 Shonosuke Sugasawa , Francis K. C. Hui , Alan H. Welsh

Identifying anomalies and contamination in datasets is important in a wide variety of settings. In this paper, we describe a new technique for estimating contamination in large, discrete valued datasets. Our approach considers the normal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Matthew L. Malloy , Scott Alfeld , Paul Barford

Sources of bias in empirical studies can be separated in those coming from the modelling domain (e.g. multicollinearity) and those coming from outliers. We propose a two-step approach to counter both issues. First, by decontaminating data…

General Economics · Economics 2019-02-14 Mathias Kloss , Thomas Kirschstein , Steffen Liebscher , Martin Petrick

Graphical modeling explores dependences among a collection of variables by inferring a graph that encodes pairwise conditional independences. For jointly Gaussian variables, this translates into detecting the support of the precision…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-16 Shota Katayama , Hironori Fujisawa , Mathias Drton

Considering a common case where measurements are obtained from independent sensors, we present a novel outlier-robust filter for nonlinear dynamical systems in this work. The proposed method is devised by modifying the measurement model and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Aamir Hussain Chughtai , Muhammad Tahir , Momin Uppal

Emerging applications of sensor networks for detection sometimes suggest that classical problems ought be revisited under new assumptions. This is the case of binary hypothesis testing with independent - but not necessarily identically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Stefano Marano , Peter Willett

The problem of identifying the most discriminating features when performing supervised learning has been extensively investigated. In particular, several methods for variable selection in model-based classification have been proposed.…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-16 Andrea Cappozzo , Francesca Greselin , Thomas Brendan Murphy

This paper presents a fast methodology, called ROBOUT, to identify outliers in a response variable conditional on a set of linearly related predictors, retrieved from a large granular dataset. ROBOUT is shown to be effective and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-27 Matteo Farnè , Angelos Vouldis

Cellwise Robust Twoblock (CRTB) is introduced, the first cellwise robust method for simultaneous dimension reduction of multivariate predictor and response blocks, in both a dense and a sparse variable-selecting variant. Classical robust…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-17 Sven Serneels

Outliers are the points which are different from or inconsistent with the rest of the data. They can be novel, new, abnormal, unusual or noisy information. Outliers are sometimes more interesting than the majority of the data. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Singh Vijendra , Pathak Shivani

We study robust regression under a contamination model in which covariates are clean while the responses may be corrupted in an adaptive manner. Unlike the classical Huber's contamination model, where both covariates and responses may be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Ilias Diakonikolas , Chao Gao , Daniel M. Kane , Ankit Pensia , Dong Xie

A large dimensional characterization of robust M-estimators of covariance (or scatter) is provided under the assumption that the dataset comprises independent (essentially Gaussian) legitimate samples as well as arbitrary deterministic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-28 David Morales-Jimenez , Romain Couillet , Matthew R. McKay

Classical discriminant analysis (DA) is based on the mean and empirical covariance matrix of each class, both of which are sensitive to outliers in the data. In the past the focus was on casewise outliers, that is, datapoints that lie far…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Fabio Centofanti , Can Hakan Dagidir , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

A robust estimation framework for binary regression models is studied, aiming to extend traditional approaches like logistic regression models. While previous studies largely focused on logistic models, we explore a broader class of models…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-24 Kenichi Hayashi , Shinto Eguchi