Trimmed slope estimates for simple linear regression (Q756333)

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Trimmed slope estimates for simple linear regression
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    Trimmed slope estimates for simple linear regression (English)
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    For the simple linear regression model, the trimmed slope estimate introduced here is a direct extension of the concept of a trimmed mean. To calculate a trimmed mean, order the observations, disregard unusually high and low ones, and take an average of the remaining observations. Specifying which observations are unusual is the discriminating factor among several types of trimmed means. Similar to the mean, the least squares estimate of the slope may be thought of as a weighted average of slopes calculated from pairs of observations. To calculate a trimmed slope estimate, order the pairwise slopes, disregard unusually high and low ones, and take a weighted average of the remaining slopes. We discuss various methods of specifying the unusual slopes to be trimmed. We also allow a broad class of weights to be used in the averaging. In some situations which admit outliers in the data, from a robustness viewpoint certain choices of weights are useful even without trimming pairwise slopes.
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    consistency
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    asymptotic normality
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    influence functions
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    U-statistics
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    statistical functionals
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    kernel distribution functions
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    simple linear regression model
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    trimmed slope estimate
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    trimmed mean
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    least squares estimate
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    weighted average of slopes
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    outliers
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    robustness
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