Gaining Outlier Resistance With Progressive Quantiles: Fast Algorithms and Theoretical Studies
利用渐进分位数增强离群值抵抗力:快速算法与理论研究
Outliers widely occur in big-data applications and may severely affect statistical estimation and inference. In this article, a framework of outlier-resistant estimation is introduced to robustify an arbitrarily given loss function. It has a close connection to the method of trimming and includes explicit outlyingness parameters for all samples, which in turn facilitates computation, theory, and parameter tuning. To tackle the issues of nonconvexity and nonsmoothness, we…