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Automatic Selection of the Turning Parametter in the Minimum Density Power Divergence Estimation

  • Changkon Hong (Department of Statistics, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Youngseok (Department of Statistics, Pusan National University)
  • Published : 2001.09.01
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Abstract

It is often the case that one wants to estimate parameters of the distribution which follows certain parametric model, while the dta are contaminated. it is well known that the maximum likelihood estimators are not robust to contamination. Basuet al.(1998) proposed a robust method called the minimum density power divergence estimation. In this paper, we investigate data-driven selection of the tuning parameter $\alpha$ in the minimum density power divergence estimation. A criterion is proposed and its performance is studied through the simulation. The simulation includes three cases of estimation problem.

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