Maximum trimmed likelihood estimator for multivariate mixed continuous and categorical data |
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Authors: | Tsung-Chi Cheng Atanu Biswas |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Statistics, National Chengchi University, 64 ZhihNan Road, Section 2, Taipei 11605, Taiwan b Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T. Road, Kolkata 700 108, India |
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Abstract: | In this article, we apply the maximum trimmed likelihood (MTL) approach Hadi, A.S., Luceño, A., 1997. Maximum trimmed likelihood estimators: a unified approach, examples, and algorithms. Comput. Statist. Data Anal. 25, 251-272] to obtain the robust estimators of multivariate location and shape, especially for data mixed with continuous and categorical variables. The forward search algorithm Atkinson, A.C., 1994. Fast very robust methods for the detection of multiple outliers. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 89, 1329-1339] is adapted to compute the proposed MTL estimates. A simulation study shows that the proposed estimator outperforms the classical maximum likelihood estimator when outliers exist in data. Real data sets are also used to illustrate the method and results of the detection of the outliers. |
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Keywords: | Forward search algorithm Mahalanobis distance Maximum trimmed likelihood estimator Minimum covariance determinant estimator Mixed data Multiple outliers Robust diagnostics |
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