Semiparametric robust estimation of truncated and censored regression models

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• 作者：Pavel 膶í ; 啪ek ; ^{P.Cizek@uvt.nl}
• 关键词：C13 ; C14 ; C21 ; C24
• 刊名：Journal of Econometrics
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：31_03044076
• 类别：mt
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：168
• 期：2
• 页码：347-366
• 文件大小：411 K

摘要

Many estimation methods of truncated and censored regression models such as the maximum likelihood and symmetrically censored least squares (SCLS) are sensitive to outliers and data contamination as we document. Therefore, we propose a semiparametric general trimmed estimator (GTE) of truncated and censored regression, which is highly robust but relatively imprecise. To improve its performance, we also propose data-adaptive and one-step trimmed estimators. We derive the robust and asymptotic properties of all proposed estimators and show that the one-step estimators (e.g., one-step SCLS) are as robust as GTE and are asymptotically equivalent to the original estimator (e.g., SCLS). The finite-sample properties of existing and proposed estimators are studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations.