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Least absolute deviations - Wikipedia
November 22, 2024 - {\displaystyle \tau =1/2} gives the standard regression by least absolute deviations and is also known as median regression. The least absolute deviation problem may be extended to include multiple explanators, constraints and regularization, e.g., a linear model with ...
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As mentioned by others, the least-squares problem is much easier to solve. But there’s another important reason: assuming IID Gaussian noise, the least-squares solution is the Maximum-Likelihood estimate.
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has a simple analytical solution.
is difficult.
One of reasons is that the absolute value is not differentiable.
Least Absolute Value based regression
Hi , I want to use linear regression based on least absolute value deviation to find the coefficients of my model with the help of measured data and 3 independent variables. The number of measur... More on mathworks.com
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November 9, 2013Why Least SQUARES Regression instead of Least ABSOLUTE VALUE Regression?
Least squares is traditionally used for lots of reasons. It's computationally simple minimizing squares corresponds to fitting the expected response, rather than some quantile of the response It's mathematically simple The Least squares estimator corresponded to the maximum likelihood estimator if errors are Normal. More on reddit.com
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July 25, 2018Why Do We Use Least *Squares* In Linear Regression?
The least squares solution to a linear regression falls directly out of a Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the data conditioned on it being normally distributed about the "curve of best fit". So, if you maximize the likelihood of observing the data conditioned on another distribution, the least squares solution will not, in general, give you the "correct" parameters. That being said, if you only need a qualitative description of the data given by a curve that has the same general behavior, there's no reason to prefer least squares over any other metric. More on reddit.com
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October 10, 2024regression - Why squared residuals instead of absolute residuals in OLS estimation? - Cross Validated
$\begingroup$ @cardinal, I was ... least absolute value you can get infinite which makes it harder to interpret the results. $\endgroup$ ... $\begingroup$ I am refering to the least squares estimate of the regression coefficients being unique, though I was making the assumption (not originally stated) that the columns of the x matrix are linearly independent, ... More on stats.stackexchange.com
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Wayne State University
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Least Absolute Value vs. Least Squares Estimation and ...
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Least Absolute Deviation (LAD) Regression
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Analysis of least absolute deviation By KANI CHEN
squares or L2 method for statistical analysis of linear regression models. Instead of minimizing the · sum of squared errors, it minimizes the sum of absolute values of errors.
Taylor & Francis Online
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Least absolute values estimation: an introduction: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation: Vol 6, No 4
A special purpose linear programming algorithm for obtaining least absolute value estimators in a linear model with dummy variables · Source: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation ... Minimization Techniques for Piecewise Differentiable Functions: The $l_1$ Solution to an Overdetermined Linear System ... Erratum—A Note on Sharpe's Algorithm for Minimizing the Sum of Absolute Deviations in a Simple Regression Problem
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Least absolute value regression: recent contributions: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation: Vol 75, No 4
1.This article provides a review of research on least absolute value (LAV) regression. It includes articles on LAV estimation as applied to linear and non-linear regression models and in systems of...
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Least Absolute Value based regression - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central
November 9, 2013 - Hi , I want to use linear regression based on least absolute value deviation to find the coefficients of my model with the help of measured data and 3 independent variables. The number of measur...
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2.2 Least Absolute Deviation (LAD) Regression — Companion code for the book "Hands-On Mathematical Optimization with Python"
Suppose that we have a finite dataset consisting of \(n\) points \(\{({X}^{(i)}, y^{(i)})\}_{i=1,\dots,n}\) with \({X}^{(i)} \in \mathbb{R}^k\) and \(y^{(i)} \in \mathbb{R}\). A linear regression model assumes the relationship between the vector of \(k\) regressors \({X}\) and the dependent variable \(y\) is linear. This relationship is modeled through an error or deviation term \(e_i\), which quantifies how much each of the data points diverge from the model prediction and is defined as follows: \[ \begin{equation} e_i:= y^{(i)} - {m}^\top {X}^{(i)} - b = y^{(i)} - \sum_{j=1}^k X^{(i)}_j m_j - b, \end{equation} \] for some real numbers \(m_1,\dots,m_k\) and \(b\). The Least Absolute Deviation (LAD) is a possible statistical optimality criterion for such a linear regression.
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Why we use “least squares” regression instead of “least ...
Instead of using absolute values, let’s square all the values. If · we need to, we can always take a square root at the end. ... We can now use (relatively) straightforward Calculus methods to find the regression line that will minimize this formula.
Reddit
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r/AskStatistics on Reddit: Why Least SQUARES Regression instead of Least ABSOLUTE VALUE Regression?
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Why do we use Least squares, why not absolute value, or cubes, or whatever. I understand visually that it is the square of the vertical distance....but why?
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Least squares is traditionally used for lots of reasons. It's computationally simple minimizing squares corresponds to fitting the expected response, rather than some quantile of the response It's mathematically simple The Least squares estimator corresponded to the maximum likelihood estimator if errors are Normal.
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It's simpler to get the least squares solution than the LAV solution. It's maximum likelihood at the normal (maximum likelihood solutions have a number of good properties, so if you have near-normal conditional distributions, this is a good thing on several grounds), and there's convenient distributional theory for testing hypotheses (of the overall regression and the individual coefficients) in that case, and for making confidence intervals and prediction intervals. It's the best possible estimator (in terms of lowest variance) of the unbiased linear estimators. Linear estimators are convenient (see point 1). So when linear estimators are any good (which is not always the case), it's the best of those good choices. If you have a design matrix of full rank, the LS solution is unique (non-degenerate quadratics have a distinct turning point); this is not always the case with L1 (LAV) regression; frequently the optimum is a region. But in any case least absolute value regression is used quite often -- just not nearly as often as least squares.
Readthedocs
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Least Absolute Deviation Regression - gurobi-optimods documentation v3.0.0
LADRegression chooses coefficients \(w\) of a linear model \(y = Xw\) so as to minimize the sum of absolute errors on a training dataset \((X, y)\). In other words, it aims to minimize the following loss function: ... The fitting algorithm of the LAD regression Mod is implemented by formulating the loss function as a Linear Program (LP), which is then solved using Gurobi. Here \(I\) is the set of observations and \(J\) the set of fields. Response values \(y_i\) are predicted from predictor values \(x_{ij}\) by fitting coefficients \(w_j\).
ScienceDirect
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Forecasting in least absolute value regression with autocorrelated errors: a small-sample study - ScienceDirect
April 19, 2002 - Least absolute value (LAV) regression is a robust alternative to ordinary least squares (OLS) and is particularly useful when model disturbances follow distributions that are nonnormal and subject to outliers.
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(PDF) Least Squares versus Least Absolute Deviations estimation in regression models
December 1, 2009 - In regression problems alternative criteria of “best fit” to least squares are least absolute deviations and least maximum deviations. In this paper it is noted that linear programming techniques may be employed to solve the latter two problems. In particular, if the linear regression relation contains p parameters, minimizing the sum of the absolute value of the “vertical” deviations from the regression line is shown to reduce to a p equation linear programming model with bounded variables; and fitting by the Chebyshev criterion is exhibited to lead to a standard-form p+1 equation linear programming model.
SAPUB
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Robust Regression by Least Absolute Deviations Method
Loss denotes the seriousness of the nonzero prediction error to the investigator, where prediction error is the difference between the predicted and the observed value of the response variable. Meyer & Glauber (1964) [9] stated that for at least certain economic problems absolute error may be amore satisfactory measure of loss than the squared error. The least absolute deviation errors regression (or for brevity, absolute errors regression) overcomes the aforementioned drawbacks of the least squares regression and provides an attractive alternative.
RDocumentation
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lad function - Least absolute deviation
Least absolute deviation (LAD) regression is an alternative to ordinary least squares (OLS) regression that has greater power for thick-tailed symmetric and asymmetric error distributions (Cade and Richards 1996). LAD regression estimates the conditional median (a conditional 0.50 quantile) ...
Ampl
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LAD Regression — Hands-On Mathematical Optimization with AMPL in Python
Suppose we have a finite dataset consisting of \(n\) points \(\{({X}^{(i)}, y^{(i)})\}_{i=1,\dots,n}\) with \({X}^{(i)} \in \mathbb{R}^k\) and \(y^{(i)} \in \mathbb{R}\). A linear regression model assumes the relationship between the vector of \(k\) regressors \({X}\) and the dependent variable \(y\) is linear. This relationship is modeled through an error or deviation term \(e_i\), which quantifies how much each of the data points diverge from the model prediction and is defined as follows: \[ \begin{equation}\label{eq:regression} e_i:= y^{(i)} - {m}^\top {X}^{(i)} - b = y^{(i)} - \sum_{j=1}^k X^{(i)}_j m_j - b, \end{equation} \] for some real numbers \(m_1,\dots,m_k\) and \(b\). The Least Absolute Deviation (LAD) is a possible statistical optimality criterion for such a linear regression.
Springer
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Estimation and testing in least absolute value regression with serially correlated disturbances | Annals of Operations Research
Least absolute value (LAV) regression provides a robust alternative to least squares, particularly when the disturbances follow distributions that are nonnormal and subject to outliers.
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r/math on Reddit: Why Do We Use Least *Squares* In Linear Regression?
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I understand the idea is the minimize the sum of the squares of the errors compared to the y = mx + b regression, but why the squares? Why not minimize then sum of the absolute value of the errors? Or the fourth powers of the errors?
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The least squares solution to a linear regression falls directly out of a Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the data conditioned on it being normally distributed about the "curve of best fit". So, if you maximize the likelihood of observing the data conditioned on another distribution, the least squares solution will not, in general, give you the "correct" parameters. That being said, if you only need a qualitative description of the data given by a curve that has the same general behavior, there's no reason to prefer least squares over any other metric.
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For linear regression, least squares is the provably best estimator by the Gauss–Markov theorem , given some assumptions about the data. Of course, the definition of "best" here is minimizing the sampling error. We define variance to be the expectation value of the square of the deviation. So if you wanted to define a different type of error for your use case, it's possible that some other algorithm does better.
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Both are done.
Least squares is easier, and the fact that for independent random variables "variances add" means that it's considerably more convenient; for examples, the ability to partition variances is particularly handy for comparing nested models. It's somewhat more efficient at the normal (least squares is maximum likelihood), which might seem to be a good justification -- however, some robust estimators with high breakdown can have surprisingly high efficiency at the normal.
But L1 norms are certainly used for regression problems and these days relatively often.
If you use R, you might find the discussion in section 5 here useful:
https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/appendices/Appendix-Robust-Regression.pdf
(though the stuff before it on M estimation is also relevant, since it's also a special case of that)
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I can't help quoting from Huber, Robust Statistics, p.10 on this (sorry the quote is too long to fit in a comment):
Two time-honored measures of scatter are the mean absolute deviation
$$d_n=\frac{1}{n}\sum|x_i-\bar{x}|$$
and the mean square deviation
$$s_n=\left[\frac{1}{n}\sum(x_i-\bar{x})^2\right]^{1/2}$$
There was a dispute between Eddington (1914, p.147) and Fisher (1920, footnote on p. 762) about the relative merits of $d_n$ and $s_n$.[...] Fisher seemingly settled the matter by pointing out that for normal observations $s_n$ is about 12% more efficient than $d_n$.
By the relation between the conditional mean $\hat{y}$ and the unconditional mean $\bar{x}$ a similar argument applies to the residuals.