Asymmetric robust quasi-likelihood

  • Published : 2005.05.20

Abstract

The robust quasi-likelihood (RQL) proposed by Cantoni & Ronchetti (2001) is a robust version of quasi-likelihood. They adopted Huber function to increase the resistance of the RQL estimator to the outliers. They considered the Huber function only of symmetric type. We extend the class of Huber function to include asymmetric types, and derived a method to find the optimal asymmetric one.

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