The exon tiling array offers a high throughput technology to search for aberrant splicing in biomedical research, but few methods of analysis for splicing detection have been tested both statistically and empirically. Noisy measurements on nonresponsive probe selection regions and outlying...

Quantile regression in the presence of fixed censoring has been studied extensively in the literature. However, existing methods either suffer from computational instability or require complex procedures involving trimming and smoothing, which complicates the asymptotic theory of the resulting...

We consider the problem of estimating quantile regression coefficients in errors-in-variables models. When the error variables for both the response and the manifest variables have a joint distribution that is spherically symmetric but otherwise unknown, the regression quantile estimates based...

In statistical analyses the complexity of a chosen model is often related to the size of available data. One important question is whether the asymptotic distribution of the parameter estimates normally derived by taking the sample size to infinity for a fixed number of parameters would remain...

The conflict between high breakdown and efficiency needs to be interpreted with care and understood in connection with the versatility of both concepts in statistical estimation.

The breakdown slope, as a useful summary measure of local stability for estimators and test statistics, has been studied recently by He, Simpson, and Protnoy (1990, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 85). It is shown here that all regression estimates based on residuals alone in linear models have zero...