Robust estimators are determined using the minimum disparity estimation method (Lindsay, 1994; Basu and Lindsay, 1994) in the errors-in-variables model. These estimators are asymptotically fully efficient for the model considered and have strong robustness features. In a numerical example these...

For an ARIMA(0,1,q) model having an autoregressive unit root with an irregularly observed sample we propose a unit root test based on instrumental variable estimation. The test is shown to have the same asymptotic distribution as the ordinary least squares estimator of the unit root in an AR(1)...

Effects of additive and innovational outliers on unit root tests in ARIMA(p, 1, q) models are investigated. The limiting distribution of the ordinary least-squares estimator of the unit root parameter in the AR(1) model is affected by additive outliers but is unaffected by innovational outliers....

Market segmentation has always been seen as a critical marketing decision area for all organization pursuing marketing and strategic planning to manage their businesses. Accordingly, it has received considerable attention by academic researchers since its conception by Smith (1956). Segmentation...