Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

The Korean Statistical Society (한국통계학회)
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Robust Estimator of Location Parameter

  • Published : 2004.04.01
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Abstract

In recent years, the size of data set which we usually handle is enormous, so a lot of outliers could be included in data set. Therefore the robust procedures that automatically handle outliers become very importance issue. We consider the robust estimation problem of location parameter in the univariate case. In this paper, we propose a new method for defining robustness weights for the weighted mean based on the median distance of observations and compare its performance with several existing robust estimators by a simulation study. It turns out that the proposed method is very competitive.

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