A review on robust M-estimators for regression analysis

DQF De Menezes, DM Prata, AR Secchi… - Computers & Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Regression analysis constitutes an important tool for investigating the effect of explanatory
variables on response variables. When outliers and bias errors are present, the weighted …

Robust RFI Excision for Pulsar Signals by a Novel Nonlinear M-type Estimator with an Application to Pulsar Timing

H Shan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation for pulsar signals is a long perplexing issue in
astrophysical measurements. Linear mitigation methods are often criticized for limited RFI …

A redescending M-estimator approach for outlier-resilient modeling

A Raza, M Noor-ul-Amin, A Ayari-Akkari, M Nabi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The OLS model is built on the assumption of normality in the distribution of error terms.
However, this assumption can be easily violated, especially when there are outliers in the …

Color-based image segmentation by means of a robust intuitionistic fuzzy c-means algorithm

D Mújica-Vargas, JMV Kinani, JJ Rubio - International Journal of Fuzzy …, 2020 - Springer
To yield well-suited image segmentation results, conventional clustering algorithms depend
on customized hand-crafted features as well as an appropriate initialization process. This …

Robust Extreme Learning Machine Using New Activation and Loss Functions Based on M‐Estimation for Regression and Classification

A Khan, A Ali, N Islam, S Manzoor, H Zeb… - Scientific …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides an analysis of the combining effect of novel activation function and loss
function based on M‐estimation in application to extreme learning machine (ELM), a feed …

Improved regression in ratio type estimators based on robust M-estimation

KUI Rather, EG Koçyiğit, R Onyango, C Kadilar - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
In this article, a new robust ratio type estimator using the Uk's redescending M-estimator is
proposed for the estimation of the finite population mean in the simple random sampling …

Enhancing performance in the presence of outliers with redescending M-estimators

A Raza, M Talib, M Noor-ul-Amin, N Gunaime… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In real-life situations, we have to analyze the data that contains the atypical observations,
and the presence of outliers has adverse effects on the performance of ordinary least square …

An efficient nonlinear approach for removing fixed-value impulse noise from grayscale images

D Mújica-Vargas, J de Jesús Rubio, JMV Kinani… - Journal of Real-Time …, 2018 - Springer
Removal of salt and pepper noise has been one of the most interesting researches in the
field of image preprocessing tasks; it has two simultaneous stringent demands: the …

Modified Robust Ridge M‐Estimators in Two‐Parameter Ridge Regression Model

S Yasin, S Salem, H Ayed, S Kamal… - Mathematical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The methods of two‐parameter ridge and ordinary ridge regression are very sensitive to the
presence of the joint problem of multicollinearity and outliers in the y‐direction. To overcome …

[PDF][PDF] Redescending M-estimator for robust regression

M Noor-Ul-Amin, SUD Asghar… - … of Reliability and …, 2018 - journals.riverpublishers.com
In the linear regression problem, redescending M-estimators are used as an alternative
method to the ordinary least square method when there are outliers in the data. Using the …