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On the invariance of certain estimators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

J.E. Gentle  and
V.A. Sposito
J.E. Gentle
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
V.A. Sposito
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
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Abstract

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In this note, Lp estimators for the parameters in the linear model y = Xβ are considered. In particular, it is shown that these estimators are invariant under scale transformations on the dependent variable; that is, if is an Lp estimator for β, then for any nonzero scalar a. It is shown that this result does not extend to more general transformations on y, and the invariance property does not hold for general nonlinear models.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , June 1976 , pp. 405 - 408
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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