High Breakdown

This has become one of the most highly cited and influential papers I have written, with a citation count near a 100.

One recent article of interest which utilizes a concept developed in this paper is:

Dehon, C., Gassner, M. and Verardi, V. (2009), Beware of ‘Good’ Outliers and Overoptimistic Conclusions. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 71: 437–452

TITLE:

Econometric Applications of High Breakdown Regression Estimators

JOURNAL:

Economic Letters

DATE OF PUBLICATION:

2001

ABSTRACT:

A literature search shows that robust regression techniques are rarely used in applied econometrics. We present a technique based on Rousseeuw and Van Zomeren [Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85 (1990) 633–639] that removes many of the difficulties in applying such techniques to economic data. We demonstrate the value of these techniques by re-analyzing three OLS-based regressions from the literature.

REFERENCE:

Zaman, Asad; Peter J. Rousseeuw & Mehmet Orhan, 2001, “Econometric Applications of High Breakdown Regression Estimators,” Economic Letters (71) pp.1-8