Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/61698 
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Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 1999,75
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
Deviations from the center within a robust neighborhood may naturally be considered an infinite dimensional nuisance parameter. Thus, in principle, the semiparametric method may be tried, which is to compute the scores function for the main parameter minus its orthogonal projection on the closed linear tangent space for the nuisance parameter, and then rescale for Fisher consistency. We derive such a semiparametric influence curve by nonlinear projection on the tangent balls arising in robust statistics. This semiparametric IC is compared with the robust IC that minimizes maximum weighted mean square error of asymptotically linear estimators over infinitesimal neighborhoods. For Hellinger balls, the two coincide (with the classical one). In the total variation model, the semiparametrie IC solves the robust MSE problem for a particular bias weight. In the case of contamination neighborhoods, the semiparametric IC is bounded only from above. Due to an interchange of truncation and linear combination, the discrepancy increases with the dimension. Thus, despite of striking similarities, the semiparametric method falls short, or fails, to solve the robust MSE problem for gross error models.
Subjects: 
: Hellinger
total Validation and contamination neighborhoods
semiparametrie models
tangent spaces
cones and balls
projection
influence curves
Fisher consistency
canonical influence curve
Hampel-Krasker influence curve
differentiable functionals
asymptotically linear estimators
Cramer-Rao bound
maximum mean square error
asymptotic minimax and convolution theorems
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Working Paper

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