Least absolute deviations regression resists outliers in the response variable but is relatively sensitive to outlying observations in the explanatory variables. In this paper a simple solution is proposed to overcome this problem. This is achieved by minimizing the absolute values of vertical...

Shanbhag (1972, 1979) has characterized the distributions belonging to an exponential family on such that the Bhattacharyya matrix is diagonal. Since then, this set of distributions has been classed by Morris (1982) and is referred to as the class of quadratic natural exponential families. In...

Distribution-free results beyond Gauss-Markov theory are found under weak assumptions regarding the errors. Symmetry, unimodality, and location-scale families are studied in estimation; nonstandard versions of Gauss-Markov results are given; and distribution-free confidence sets are tightened...

In order to construct a fixed-size confidence region for the mean vector of an unknown distribution functionF, a new purely sequential sampling strategy is proposed first. For this new procedure, under some regularity conditions onF, the coverage probability is shown (Theorem 2.1) to be at least...

We point out that inliers adversely affect performance of the spatial median and its generalization due to Gentleman. They are most deleterious in the case of the median itself, and in the important setting of two dimensions. There, the second term in a stochastic expansion of the median has a...

The data consists of multivariate failure times under right random censorship. By the kernel smoothing technique, convolutions of cumulative multivariate hazard functions suggest estimators of the so-called multivariate hazard functions. We establish strong i.i.d. representations and uniform...

B. Efron introducedjackknife-after-bootstrapas a computationally efficient method for estimating standard errors of bootstrap estimators. In a recent paper consistency of the jackknife-after-bootstrap variance estimators has been established for different bootstrap quantities for independent and...

For a probability distribution on a Banach space, we introduce a family of central balls, indexed by their radius, using a proximity criterion close to those defining the spatial median. It is shown that these balls possess robustness and equivariance properties similar to those of the spatial...

We consider the problem of estimating the precision matrix ([Sigma]-1) under a fully invariant convex loss. Suppose that there exists a minimax constant risk estimator[Phi](say) for this problem. K. Krishnamoorthy and A. K. Gupta have proposed an operation which transforms this estimator into an...

We shall consider the problems of classifying an observation from regression model with stationary long-memory or short-memory disturbances into one of two populations described by the mean functions of the model. We use the log-likelihood ratio as a discrimant statistic which is optimal in the...