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W-Estimator

The W-estimator is a family of robust M-estimator variants for linear regression that use the Tukey bisquare and Welsch weight functions, introduced in the line of work going back to Beaton and Tukey (1974). Because its weights fall rapidly toward zero as a residual grows, it resists outliers more strongly than the Huber M-estimator.

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W-Estimator Robust Regression (Welsch / Tukey Bisquare)
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / statistics
  • Beaton, A. E. & Tukey, J. W. (1974). The Fitting of Power Series, Meaning Polynomials, Illustrated on Band-Spectroscopic Data. Technometrics, 16(2), 147-185. · DOI 10.1080/00401706.1974.10489171
  • Maronna, R. A., Martin, R. D., Yohai, V. J. & Salibián-Barrera, M. (2019). Robust Statistics: Theory and Methods (with R) (2nd ed.). Wiley. · ISBN 978-1119214687
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