The estimation of empirical models is essential to public policy analysis and social science research. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis is the most frequently used empirical model, and ...

High-breakdown-point regression estimators protect against large errors and data contamination. We generalize the concept of trimming used by many of these robust estimators, such as the least trimmed ...

The American Statistician strives to publish articles of general interest to the statistical profession on topics that are important for a broad group of statisticians, and ordinarily not highly ...