We introduce a new method to robustifying inference that can be applied in any situation where a parametric likelihood is available. The key feature is that data from the postulated parametric models are assumed to be measured with error where the measurement error distribution is chosen to produce the occasional gross errors found in data. We show that the tails of the error-contamination model control the properties (boundedness, redescendingness) of the resulting influence functions, with heavier tails in the error contamination model producing more robust estimators. In the application to location-scale models with independent and identically distributed data, the resulting analytically-intractable likelihoods are approximated via Monte Carlo integration. In the application to time series models, we propose a Bayesian approach to the robust estimation of time series parameters. We use Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to estimate the parameters of interest and also the gross errors. The latter are used as outlier diagnostics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NCSU/oai:NCSU:etd-08112005-222926 |
| Date | 16 August 2005 |
| Creators | Wang, Qiong |
| Contributors | David D. Dickey, Dennis D. Boos, Leonard A. Stefanski, Marc G. Genton |
| Publisher | NCSU |
| Source Sets | North Carolina State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08112005-222926/ |
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