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Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics Dr. Matthias Kohl Chair for Stochastics joint work with Dr. Peter Ruckdeschel Fraunhofer ITWM useR! The R User


  1. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics Dr. Matthias Kohl Chair for Stochastics joint work with Dr. Peter Ruckdeschel Fraunhofer ITWM useR! – The R User Conference 2008 Dortmund August 12 Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  2. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Outline Robust Asymptotic Statistics 1 Exponential Families 2 Regression-Type Models 3 Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  3. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Outline Robust Asymptotic Statistics 1 Exponential Families 2 Regression-Type Models 3 Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  4. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Setup I Ideal model: L 2 -differentiable parametric family of probability measures, parameter space: Θ ⊂ R k (open) Estimator class: asymptotically linear estimators (ALEs) S n n S n ( x 1 , . . . , x n ) = θ + 1 � ψ θ ( x i ) + R n n i =1 x 1 , . . . , x n : sample ψ θ : influence curve/function (IC) at θ ∈ Θ R n : asymptotically negligible remainder E.g. as. normal M-, L-, R-, S- and MD-estimators Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  5. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Setup I Ideal model: L 2 -differentiable parametric family of probability measures, parameter space: Θ ⊂ R k (open) Estimator class: asymptotically linear estimators (ALEs) S n n S n ( x 1 , . . . , x n ) = θ + 1 � ψ θ ( x i ) + R n n i =1 x 1 , . . . , x n : sample ψ θ : influence curve/function (IC) at θ ∈ Θ R n : asymptotically negligible remainder E.g. as. normal M-, L-, R-, S- and MD-estimators Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  6. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Setup II Infinitesimal neighborhood: deviations (gross errors, outliers, etc.) from the ideal model P θ of form r d ∗ ( P θ , Q ) = √ n =: r n Q ∈ M 1 M 1 : set of all probability measures d ∗ : some distance or pseudo-distance r : radius in [0 , √ n ] E.g. Tukey’s gross error model Q = (1 − r n ) P θ + r n H n H n ∈ M 1 Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  7. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Optimally robust ALEs Optimization problem: � � G asBias ( S n ) , asVar ( S n ) = min! G : positive, convex, strictly increasing in both args asBias ( S n ): some function of ψ θ (IC) asVar ( S n ): some function of ψ θ (IC) Hence: minimum is taken over all ICs ψ θ Optimal solutions: Rieder (1994) [3], Ruckdeschel and Rieder (2004) [10], Kohl (2005) [2] Unknown radius: radius-minimax estimator; cf. Rieder et al. (2008) [8] Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  8. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Optimally robust ALEs Optimization problem: � � G asBias ( S n ) , asVar ( S n ) = min! G : positive, convex, strictly increasing in both args asBias ( S n ): some function of ψ θ (IC) asVar ( S n ): some function of ψ θ (IC) Hence: minimum is taken over all ICs ψ θ Optimal solutions: Rieder (1994) [3], Ruckdeschel and Rieder (2004) [10], Kohl (2005) [2] Unknown radius: radius-minimax estimator; cf. Rieder et al. (2008) [8] Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  9. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Optimally robust ALEs Optimization problem: � � G asBias ( S n ) , asVar ( S n ) = min! G : positive, convex, strictly increasing in both args asBias ( S n ): some function of ψ θ (IC) asVar ( S n ): some function of ψ θ (IC) Hence: minimum is taken over all ICs ψ θ Optimal solutions: Rieder (1994) [3], Ruckdeschel and Rieder (2004) [10], Kohl (2005) [2] Unknown radius: radius-minimax estimator; cf. Rieder et al. (2008) [8] Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  10. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Optimally robust estimation Possible steps to compute an optimally robust estimator: 1 Decide on ideal model, neighborhood and risk 2 Try to find a rough estimate for the amount r n ∈ [0 , 1] of gross errors such that r n ∈ [ r n , r n ]. 3 Choose and evaluate appropriate initial estimate; e.g., Kolmogorov or Cram´ er von Mises MD-estimator 4 Estimate the parameter(s) of interest by means of the corresponding radius-minimax estimator (cf. Rieder et al. (2008) [8]) using a k -step ( k ≥ 1) construction. Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  11. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Optimally robust estimation Possible steps to compute an optimally robust estimator: 1 Decide on ideal model, neighborhood and risk 2 Try to find a rough estimate for the amount r n ∈ [0 , 1] of gross errors such that r n ∈ [ r n , r n ]. 3 Choose and evaluate appropriate initial estimate; e.g., Kolmogorov or Cram´ er von Mises MD-estimator 4 Estimate the parameter(s) of interest by means of the corresponding radius-minimax estimator (cf. Rieder et al. (2008) [8]) using a k -step ( k ≥ 1) construction. Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  12. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Optimally robust estimation Possible steps to compute an optimally robust estimator: 1 Decide on ideal model, neighborhood and risk 2 Try to find a rough estimate for the amount r n ∈ [0 , 1] of gross errors such that r n ∈ [ r n , r n ]. 3 Choose and evaluate appropriate initial estimate; e.g., Kolmogorov or Cram´ er von Mises MD-estimator 4 Estimate the parameter(s) of interest by means of the corresponding radius-minimax estimator (cf. Rieder et al. (2008) [8]) using a k -step ( k ≥ 1) construction. Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  13. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Optimally robust estimation Possible steps to compute an optimally robust estimator: 1 Decide on ideal model, neighborhood and risk 2 Try to find a rough estimate for the amount r n ∈ [0 , 1] of gross errors such that r n ∈ [ r n , r n ]. 3 Choose and evaluate appropriate initial estimate; e.g., Kolmogorov or Cram´ er von Mises MD-estimator 4 Estimate the parameter(s) of interest by means of the corresponding radius-minimax estimator (cf. Rieder et al. (2008) [8]) using a k -step ( k ≥ 1) construction. Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  14. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Outline Robust Asymptotic Statistics 1 Exponential Families 2 Regression-Type Models 3 Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  15. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Some examples Normal (Gaussian): location and scale Binomial: probability of success Poisson: positive mean Gamma: shape and scale Gumbel: location and scale all smoothly parameterized exponential families of full rank Approach also works for other smoothly parametrized families! Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  16. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Some examples Normal (Gaussian): location and scale Binomial: probability of success Poisson: positive mean Gamma: shape and scale Gumbel: location and scale all smoothly parameterized exponential families of full rank Approach also works for other smoothly parametrized families! Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  17. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Some examples Normal (Gaussian): location and scale Binomial: probability of success Poisson: positive mean Gamma: shape and scale Gumbel: location and scale all smoothly parameterized exponential families of full rank Approach also works for other smoothly parametrized families! Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  18. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Basic R-Packages distr: S4-classes for distributions. distrEx: Functionals on distributions. RandVar: S4-classes and methods for random variables. distrMod: S4-classes for parametric families of probability measures, minimum distance (MD) estimators. RobAStBase: S4-classes for ICs and infinitesimal neighborhoods. cf. Ruckdeschel et al. (2006) [9], Kohl (2005) [2], http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/distr/ , http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/robast/ Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

  19. Robust Asymptotic Statistics Exponential Families Regression-Type Models Basic R-Packages distr: S4-classes for distributions. distrEx: Functionals on distributions. RandVar: S4-classes and methods for random variables. distrMod: S4-classes for parametric families of probability measures, minimum distance (MD) estimators. RobAStBase: S4-classes for ICs and infinitesimal neighborhoods. cf. Ruckdeschel et al. (2006) [9], Kohl (2005) [2], http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/distr/ , http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/robast/ Dr. Matthias Kohl R-Packages for Robust Asymptotic Statistics

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