On Computing the Least Quantile of Squares Estimate

  • Authors:
  • G. A. Watson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In linear regression, an important role is played by the least quantile of squares (LQS) estimate, which involves the minimization of the qth smallest squared residual for a given set of data. This function is nondifferentiable and nonconvex and may have a large number of local minima. This paper is mainly concerned with the efficient calculation of the global solution, and some different approaches are considered.