Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1145806 Journal of Multivariate Analysis 2013 13 Pages PDF
Abstract
Single index models are natural extensions of linear models and overcome the so-called curse of dimensionality. They have applications to many fields, such as medicine, economics and finance. However, most existing methods based on least squares or likelihood are sensitive when there are outliers or the error distribution is heavy tailed. Although an M-type regression is often considered as a good alternative to those methods, it may lose efficiency for normal errors. In this paper, we propose a new robust and efficient estimation procedure based on local modal regression for single index models. The asymptotic normality of proposed estimators for both the parametric and nonparametric parts is established. We show that the proposed estimators are as asymptotically efficient as the least-square-based estimators when there are no outliers and the error distribution is normal. A modified EM algorithm is presented for efficient implementation. The simulations and real data analysis are conducted to illustrate the finite sample performance of the proposed method.
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Numerical Analysis
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