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Least Trimmed Squares

Least Trimmed Squares is a robust linear regression method introduced by Peter J. Rousseeuw in 1984. Instead of fitting all residuals, it estimates the coefficients by minimising the sum of only the h smallest squared residuals, which gives it a breakdown point of up to 50% and reliable estimates on data heavily contaminated by outliers.

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Least Trimmed Squares (LTS) Regression
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / statistics
  • Rousseeuw, P. J. (1984). Least Median of Squares Regression. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 79(388), 871-880. · DOI 10.1080/01621459.1984.10477105
  • Rousseeuw, P. J., & Van Driessen, K. (2006). Computing LTS Regression for Large Data Sets. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 12, 29-45. · DOI 10.1007/s10618-005-0024-4
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