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Adaptive Huber Regression

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  • Qiang Sun
  • Wen-Xin Zhou
  • Jianqing Fan

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Big data can easily be contaminated by outliers or contain variables with heavy-tailed distributions, which makes many conventional methods inadequate. To address this challenge, we propose the adaptive Huber regression for robust estimation and inference. The key observation is that the robustification parameter should adapt to the sample size, dimension and moments for optimal tradeoff between bias and robustness. Our theoretical framework deals with heavy-tailed distributions with bounded (1+δ) th moment for any δ>0 . We establish a sharp phase transition for robust estimation of regression parameters in both low and high dimensions: when δ≥1 , the estimator admits a sub-Gaussian-type deviation bound without sub-Gaussian assumptions on the data, while only a slower rate is available in the regime 0

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  • Qiang Sun & Wen-Xin Zhou & Jianqing Fan, 2020. "Adaptive Huber Regression," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 115(529), pages 254-265, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jnlasa:v:115:y:2020:i:529:p:254-265
    DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2018.1543124
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