On Boscovich's Estimator
论 Boscovich 估计量
Boscovich's (1757) proposal to estimate the parameters of a linear model by minimizing the sum of absolute deviations subject to the constraint that the mean residual be zero is considered. The asymptotic theory of the estimator confirms a remark of Edgeworth who called it a "remarkable hybrid" between $\mathscr{l}_1$ and $\mathscr{l}_2$ methods.