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Local smoothing with robustness against outlying predictors
10.1002/env.644.abs
Outlying pollutant concentration data are frequently observed in time series studies conducted to investigate the effects of atmospheric pollution on mortality/morbidity. These outliers may severely affect the estimation procedures and even generate unexpected results like a protective effect of pollution. Although robust methods have been proposed to downweight the effect of outliers in the response variable distribution, little has been done to handle outlying explanatory variable values. We consider a robust local polynomial smoothing technique which may be useful for such purposes. It is based on downweighting points with a small design density and may also be used as a diagnostic tool to identify outliers. Using data from a study conducted in São Paulo, Brazil, we show how an unexpected form of the relative risk curve of mortality attributable to pollution by SO2 obtained via nonrobust methods may be completely reversed when the proposed technique is employed. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Local smoothing with robustness against outlying predictors
10.1002/env.644.abs
Outlying pollutant concentration data are frequently observed in time series studies conducted to investigate the effects of atmospheric pollution on mortality/morbidity. These outliers may severely affect the estimation procedures and even generate unexpected results like a protective effect of pollution. Although robust methods have been proposed to downweight the effect of outliers in the response variable distribution, little has been done to handle outlying explanatory variable values. We consider a robust local polynomial smoothing technique which may be useful for such purposes. It is based on downweighting points with a small design density and may also be used as a diagnostic tool to identify outliers. Using data from a study conducted in São Paulo, Brazil, we show how an unexpected form of the relative risk curve of mortality attributable to pollution by SO2 obtained via nonrobust methods may be completely reversed when the proposed technique is employed. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Local smoothing with robustness against outlying predictors
Einbeck, Jochen (author) / André, Carmen D. S. (author) / Singer, Julio M. (author)
Environmetrics ; 15 ; 541-554
2004-09-01
14 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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