ROBUST

The ROBUST command performs the Robust Estimation Method.

In general, the format is:

  ROBUST depvar indeps / options


The available options are:

Option Description
FIVEQUAN Uses the five quantile values in computing regression quantiles.
GASTWIRT Uses the Gastwirth weighting scheme in computing regression quantiles.
LAE Default method that specifies the Least Absolute Error model.
TUKEY Uses the Tukey Trimean weighting scheme in computing regression quantiles.
UNCOR Used with the MULTIT= option and it specifies that the uncorrelated error model is requested.
CONV= Used with the MULTIT= option and it specifies a convergence criterion to stop the iterative procedure.
DIFF= Used with the MULTIT= option and it specifies the maximum number of iterations allowed in the iterative procedure.
ITER= Used with MULTIT to specify the maximum number of iterations allowed in the iterative procedure used to obtain the estimates.
MULTIT= Specifies that the Multivariate-t method should be used.
THETA= Specifies a value of THETA to use for the Regression Quantile method.
THETAB= These options specify the beginning, ending and
THETAE= increments to be used for a grid search over THETA

Other available options are:
GRAPH, LININV, LINLOG, LIST, LOGINV, LOGLIN, LOGLOG, MAX, PCOR, PCOV, RSTAT, BEG=, END=, COEF=, COV=, PREDICT=, RESID=, STDERR= and TRATIO= as defined for OLS.