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Quantile regression is a type of regression analysis used in statistics and econometrics. Whereas the method of least squares estimates the conditional mean of the response variable across values of the predictor variables, quantile regression estimates the conditional median (or other quantiles) of the response variable.
In statistics, the Hodges–Lehmann estimator is a robust and nonparametric estimator of a population's location parameter.For populations that are symmetric about one median, such as the Gaussian or normal distribution or the Student t-distribution, the Hodges–Lehmann estimator is a consistent and median-unbiased estimate of the population median.
For example, the ML estimator from the previous example may be attained as the limit of Bayes estimators with respect to a uniform prior, [,] with increasing support and also with respect to a zero-mean normal prior (,) with increasing variance. So neither the resulting ML estimator is unique minimax nor the least favorable prior is unique.
In statistics, the method of estimating equations is a way of specifying how the parameters of a statistical model should be estimated.This can be thought of as a generalisation of many classical methods—the method of moments, least squares, and maximum likelihood—as well as some recent methods like M-estimators.
The problem is named after its historical application by Allied forces in World War II to the estimation of the monthly rate of German tank production from very limited data. This exploited the manufacturing practice of assigning and attaching ascending sequences of serial numbers to tank components (chassis, gearbox, engine, wheels), with some ...
A Rao–Blackwell estimator δ 1 (X) of an unobservable quantity θ is the conditional expected value E(δ(X) | T(X)) of some estimator δ(X) given a sufficient statistic T(X). Call δ(X) the "original estimator" and δ 1 (X) the "improved estimator". It is important that the improved estimator be observable, i.e. that it does not depend on θ.
In robust statistics, repeated median regression, also known as the repeated median estimator, is a robust linear regression algorithm. The estimator has a breakdown point of 50%. [ 1 ] Although it is equivariant under scaling, or under linear transformations of either its explanatory variable or its response variable, it is not under affine ...
Such an estimator is not necessarily an M-estimator of ρ-type, but if ρ has a continuous first derivative with respect to , then a necessary condition for an M-estimator of ψ-type to be an M-estimator of ρ-type is (,) = (,). The previous definitions can easily be extended to finite samples.