• Wind and Structures
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.383-395
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• 2018

An accurate determination of wind speed distribution is the basis for an evaluation of the wind energy potential required to design a wind turbine, so it is important to estimate unknown parameters of wind speed distribution. In this paper, Gumbel distribution is used in modelling wind speed data, and alternative robust estimation methods to estimate its parameters are considered. The methodologies used to obtain the estimators of the parameters are least absolute deviation, weighted least absolute deviation, median/MAD and least median of squares. The performances of the estimators are compared with traditional estimation methods (i.e., maximum likelihood and least squares) according to bias, mean square deviation and total mean square deviation criteria using a Monte-Carlo simulation study for the data with and without outliers. The simulation results show that least median of squares and median/MAD estimators are more efficient than others for data with outliers in many cases. However, median/MAD estimator is not consistent for location parameter of Gumbel distribution in all cases. In real data application, it is firstly demonstrated that Gumbel distribution fits the daily mean wind speed data well and is also better one to model the data than Weibull distribution with respect to the root mean square error and coefficient of determination criteria. Next, the wind data modified by outliers is analysed to show the performance of the proposed estimators by using numerical and graphical methods.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.27 no.3_4
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• pp.903-908
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• 2009

The shrink parameter in ridge regression may be contaminated by outlying points. We propose robust cross validation scores in ridge regression instead of classical cross validation. We use robust location estimators such as median, least trimmed squares, absolute mean for robust cross validation scores. The robust scores have global robustness. Simulations are performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed estimators.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• v.10
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• pp.105-121
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• 1981

The problem of selection of a subset containing the largest of several slope parameters of regression equations is considered. The proposed selection procedure is based on the weighted median estimators for regression parameters and the median of rescaled absolute residuals for scale parameters. Those estimators are compared with the classical least squares estimators by a simulation study. A Monte Carlo comparison is also made between the new procedure based on the weighted median estiamtors and the procedure based on the least squares estimators. The results show that the proposed procedure is quite robust with respect to the heaviness of distribution tails.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.349-360
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• 1995

This paper deals with the robustness properties of the minimum disparity estimation in linear regression models. The estimators defined as statistical quantities whcih minimize the blended weight Hellinger distance between a weighted kernel density estimator of the residuals and a smoothed model density of the residuals. It is shown that if the weights of the density estimator are appropriately chosen, the estimates of the regression parameters are robust.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.2 s.34
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• pp.21-30
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• 2005

In general, the robust estimation method is well known for a good statistical estimator that is insensitive to small departures from the idealized assumptions for which the estimation is optimized. While there are many existing robust estimation techniques that have been proposed in the literature, two main techniques used in computer vision are M-estimators and least-median of squares (LMS). Among these. we utilized the M-estimators since they are known to provide an optimal estimation of affine motion parameters. The M-estimators have higher statistical efficiency but tolerate much lower percentages of outliers unless properly initialized. To resolve these problems, we proposed an adaptive M-estimators algorithm that effectively separates outliers from non-outliers and estimate affine model parameters, using a continuous sigmoid weight function. The experimental results show the superiority of our method.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.269-279
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• 2002

We considered the problem for confirmation of multiple outliers and leverage points. Identification of multiple outliers and leverage points is difficult because of the masking effect and swamping effect. Rousseeuw and van Zomeren(1990) identified multiple outliers and leverage points by using the Least Median of Squares and Minimum Value of Ellipsoids which are high-breakdown robust estimators. But their methods tend to declare too many observations as extremes. Atkinson(1987) suggested a method for confirming of outliers and Fung(1993) pointed out Atkinson method's limitation and proposed another method by using the add-back model. But we analyzed that Fung's method is affected by adjacent effect. In this thesis, we proposed one procedure for confirmation of outliers and leverage points and compared three example with Fung's method.