Unified robust estimation

This article proposes a unified framework based on a large family of loss functions, a composite of concave and convex functions (CC-family). Properties of the CC-family are investigated, and CC-estimation is innovatively conducted via the iteratively reweighted convex optimisation (IRCO), which is a generalisation of the iteratively reweighted least squares in robust linear regression. For robust GLM, the IRCO becomes the iteratively reweighted GLM. The unified framework contains penalised estimation and robust support vector machine (SVM) and is demonstrated with a variety of data applications.
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics - Category: Statistics Authors: Tags: Theory and Methods Source Type: research