Robust Model Averaging Method Based on LOF Algorithm

Model averaging is a good alternative to model selection,which can deal with the uncertainty from model selection process and make full use of the information from various candidate models.However,most of the existing model averaging criteria do not consider the influence of outliers on the estimation procedures.The purpose of this paper is to develop a robust model averaging approach based on the local outlier factor(LOF)algorithm which can downweight the outliers in the covariates.Asymptotic optimality of the proposed robust model averaging estimator is derived under some regularity conditions.Further,we prove the consistency of the LOF-based weight estimator tending to the theoretically optimal weight vector.Numerical studies including Monte Carlo simulations and a real data example are provided to illustrate our proposed methodology.