• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.543-549
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• 2008

Inspired by using a robust loss function in the support vector machine regression to control training error and the idea of robust template matching with M-estimator, Chen (2004) applies M-estimator techniques to gaussian radial basis functions and form a new class of robust kernels for the support vector machines. We are specially interested in the shape of the Huber's M-estimator in this context and propose a way to find the shape parameter of the Huber's M-estimating function. For simplicity, only the two-class classification problem is considered.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.357-367
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• 2001

Huber의 M-추정함수의 형태는 조율상수가 주어질 때 비로소 그 형태가 결정된다. 조율상수를 커널밀도함수추정량의 평활계수를 이용하여 구하여 보았고, 모의실험을 통해 기존에 상요되는 조율상수들과 그 성능을 비교하여 보았다. 그 결과 새로운 방법에 의해 구해진 조율상수가 기존의 조율상수를 사용하는 경우 보다 모의실험을 통해 얻은 추정치의 분산이 작게되는 경우가 있음을 알았다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.181-188
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• 2000

The shape of an M-estimation function is generally determined in the sense of either/both maximizing efficiency of an M-estimator at the model or/and bounding the influence function of an M-estimator. We propose an empirical method of choosing a value of the bending constant in Huber's ${\psi}-function$, which is the most widely used M-estimation function when estimating the location parameter.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.233-241
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• 1999

Control chart is a very extensively used tool in testing whether a process is in a state of statistical control or not. In this paper, we propose a robust EWMA(exponentially weighted moving averages) control chart for variables, which is based on the Huber's M-estimator. The Huber's M-estimator is a well-known robust estimator in sense of distributional robustness. In the proposed chart, the estimation of the process deviation is modified to have a s table level and high power. To compare the performances of the proposed control chart with other charts, some Monte Carlo simulations we performed. The simulation results show that the robust EWMA control chart has good performance.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.21 no.48
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• pp.65-71
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• 1998

Control chart is a very extensively used tool in testing whether a process is in a state of statistical control or not. In this paper, a robust control chart for variables is proposed, which is based on the Huber's M-estimator. The Huber's M-estimator is a well-known robust estimator in sense of distributional robustness. In the proposed chart, the estimation of the process deviation is modified to have a stable level and high power. To compare the performances of the proposed control chart with the classical (equation omitted), some Monte Carlo simulations are performed. The simulation results show that the robust control chart has good performance.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.291-308
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• 2024

The current article discusses ratio type exponential estimators for estimating the mean of a finite population in sample surveys. The estimators uses robust regression's Huber M-estimation function, and their bias as well as mean squared error expressions are derived. It was campared with Kadilar, Candan, and Cingi (Hacet J Math Stat, 36, 181-188, 2007) estimators. The circumstances under which the suggested estimators perform better than competing estimators are discussed. Five different population datasets with a well recognized outlier have been widely used in numerical and simulation-based research. These thorough studies seek to provide strong proof to back up our claims by carefully assessing and validating the theoretical results reported in our study. The estimators that have been proposed are intended to significantly improve both the efficiency and accuracy of estimating the mean of a finite population. As a result, the results that are obtained from statistical analyses will be more reliable and precise.

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.257-262
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• 2003

We introduce a new robust regression estimator, self-tuning regression estimator. Various robust estimators have been developed with discovery for theories and applications since Huber introduced M-estimator at 1960's. We start by announcing various robust estimators and their properties, including their advantages and disadvantages, and furthermore, new estimator overcomes drawbacks of other robust regression estimators, such as ineffective computation on preserving robustness properties.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.463-470
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• 2016

In analysing a time series on the frequency domain, the spectral estimator (or periodogram) is a very useful statistic to identify the periods of a time series. However, the spectral estimator is very sensitive in nature to outliers, so that the spectral estimator in terms of M-estimation has been studied by some researchers. Pak (2001) proposed an empirical method to choose a tuning parameter for the Huber's M-estimating function. In this article, we try to implement Pak's estimation proposal in the spectral estimator. We use the Korean housing price index as an example data set for comparing various M-estimating results.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.371-383
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• 2000

Lindsay (1994) and Basu et al (1997) show that another density-based distance called the negative exponential disparity (NED) is an excellent competitor to the Hellinger distance (HD) in generating an asymptotically fully efficient and robust estimator. Bhattacharya and Basu (1996) consider estimation of the locations of several normal populations when an order relation between them is known to be true. They empirically show that the robust HD based weighted likelihood estimators compare favorably with the M-estimators based on Huber's $\psi$ function, the Gastworth estimator, and the trimmed mean estimator. In this paper we investigate the performance of the weighted likelihood estimator based on the NED as a robust alternative relative to that based on the HD. The NED based estimator is found to be quite competitive in the settings considered by Bhattacharya and Basu.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.1191-1204
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• 2017

Weighted least squares (WLS) estimation is often easily used for the data with heteroscedastic errors because it is intuitive and computationally inexpensive. However, WLS estimator is less robust to a few outliers and sometimes it may be inefficient. In order to overcome robustness problems, Box-Cox transformation, Huber's M estimation, bisquare estimation, and Yohai's MM estimation have been proposed. Also, more efficient estimations than WLS have been suggested such as Bayesian methods (Cepeda and Achcar, 2009) and semiparametric methods (Kim and Ma, 2012) in heteroscedastic error models. Recently, Çelik (2015) proposed the weight methods applicable to the heteroscedasticity patterns including butterfly-distributed residuals and megaphone-shaped residuals. In this paper, we review heteroscedastic regression estimators related to robust or efficient estimation and describe their properties. Also, we analyze cost data of U.S. Electricity Producers in 1955 using the methods discussed in the paper.