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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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• Influence functions. Let ( ) be a functional<br />

def<strong>in</strong>ed for ∈ F, a convex class of d.f.s:<br />

0 1 ∈ F ⇒ <br />

<br />

= (1− ) 0 + 1 ∈ F<br />

for 0 ≤ ≤ 1. Consider<br />

˙( 0 ; 1 ) = lim<br />

→0<br />

((1 − ) 0 + 1 ) − ( 0 )<br />

<br />

= ( ) |=0 <br />

When 1 = (po<strong>in</strong>t mass at ) thisrepresents<br />

the limit<strong>in</strong>g, normalized <strong>in</strong>fluence of a new observation,<br />

with value , onthestatistic ( 0 ). We<br />

call<br />

˙( 0 ; )=() (or(; 0 ))<br />

the Influence Function. It can be used as a measure<br />

of the robustness of a procedure aga<strong>in</strong>st outliers<br />

(ideally we would like it to be bounded); it<br />

can also be used to give a quick asymptotic normality<br />

proof for plug-<strong>in</strong> estimates.

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