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ArticleJournal of the American Statistical Association2020

Adaptive Huber Regression.

Qiang Sun, Wen-Xin Zhou, Jianqing Fan

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  12. Adaptive Huber Regression on Markov-dependent Data.Stochastic processes and their applications · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Qiang SunDepartment of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada.
Wen-Xin ZhouDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
Jianqing FanHonorary Professor, School of Data Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China and Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, NJ 08544.

Funding

Statistical Methods for Ultrahigh-dimensional Biomedical DataR01GM072611 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI CATTANEO, MATIAS DAMIAN · 2006 to 2021
$4.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM072611
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Big data can easily be contaminated by outliers or contain variables with heavy-tailed distributions, which makes many conventional methods inadequate. To address this challenge, we propose the adaptive Huber regression for robust estimation and inference. The key observation is that the robustification parameter should adapt to the sample size, dimension and moments for optimal tradeoff between bias and robustness. Our theoretical framework deals with heavy-tailed distributions with bounded (1 +

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Adaptive Huber regressionbias and robustness tradeofffinite-sample inferenceheavy-tailed datanonasymptotic optimalityphase transition

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PMID33139964
PMCPMC7603940

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