Bin Li
Department of Experimental Statistics
Louisiana State University
It is known that when there are heavy-tailed errors or outliers in the response, the least squares methods may fail to produce a reliable estimator. In this study, we proposed a generalized Huber criterion which is highly flexible and robust for large errors. We applied the new criterion to the bridge regression family, called robust and sparse bridge regression (RSBR). However, to get the RSBR solution requires solving a nonconvex minimization problem, which is a computational challenge. On the basis of recent advances in difference convex programming, coordinate descent algorithm and local linear approximation, we provide an efficient computational algorithm that attempts to solve this nonconvex problem. Numerical examples show the proposed RSBR algorithm performs well and suitable for large-scale problems. This is a joint work with Qingzhao Yu, from LSUHSC, New Orleans.
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