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Article: Robust Estimation of Derivatives Using Locally Weighted Least Absolute Deviation Regression
Title | Robust Estimation of Derivatives Using Locally Weighted Least Absolute Deviation Regression |
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Keywords | composite quantile regression differenced method LowLAD LowLSR outlier and heavy-tailed error |
Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | Journal of Machine Learning Research. The Journal's web site is located at http://mitpress.mit.edu/jmlr |
Citation | Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2019, v. 20 n. 60, p. 1-49 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In nonparametric regression, the derivative estimation has attracted much attention in recent years due to its wide applications. In this paper, we propose a new method for the derivative estimation using the locally weighted least absolute deviation regression. Different from the local polynomial regression, the proposed method does not require a finite variance for the error term and so is robust to the presence of heavy-tailed errors. Meanwhile, it does not require a zero median or a positive density at zero for the error term in comparison with the local median regression. We further show that the proposed estimator with random difference is asymptotically equivalent to the (infinitely) composite quantile regression estimator. In other words, running one regression is equivalent to combining infinitely many quantile regressions. In addition, the proposed method is also extended to estimate the derivatives at the boundaries and to estimate higher-order derivatives. For the equidistant design, we derive theoretical results for the proposed estimators, including the asymptotic bias and variance, consistency, and asymptotic normality. Finally, we conduct simulation studies to demonstrate that the proposed method has better performance than the existing methods in the presence of outliers and heavy-tailed errors, and analyze the Chinese house price data for the past ten years to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed method. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272099 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.796 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wang, WW | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yu, P | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lin, L | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tong, TJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-20T10:35:39Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-20T10:35:39Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2019, v. 20 n. 60, p. 1-49 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1532-4435 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272099 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In nonparametric regression, the derivative estimation has attracted much attention in recent years due to its wide applications. In this paper, we propose a new method for the derivative estimation using the locally weighted least absolute deviation regression. Different from the local polynomial regression, the proposed method does not require a finite variance for the error term and so is robust to the presence of heavy-tailed errors. Meanwhile, it does not require a zero median or a positive density at zero for the error term in comparison with the local median regression. We further show that the proposed estimator with random difference is asymptotically equivalent to the (infinitely) composite quantile regression estimator. In other words, running one regression is equivalent to combining infinitely many quantile regressions. In addition, the proposed method is also extended to estimate the derivatives at the boundaries and to estimate higher-order derivatives. For the equidistant design, we derive theoretical results for the proposed estimators, including the asymptotic bias and variance, consistency, and asymptotic normality. Finally, we conduct simulation studies to demonstrate that the proposed method has better performance than the existing methods in the presence of outliers and heavy-tailed errors, and analyze the Chinese house price data for the past ten years to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed method. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Journal of Machine Learning Research. The Journal's web site is located at http://mitpress.mit.edu/jmlr | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Machine Learning Research | - |
dc.subject | composite quantile regression | - |
dc.subject | differenced method | - |
dc.subject | LowLAD | - |
dc.subject | LowLSR | - |
dc.subject | outlier and heavy-tailed error | - |
dc.title | Robust Estimation of Derivatives Using Locally Weighted Least Absolute Deviation Regression | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Yu, P: pingyu@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Yu, P=rp01941 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 299574 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 20 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 60 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 49 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000467878700001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1532-4435 | - |