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Student's t regression

by Willem-Jan de Goeij

 

11 Aug 2009 (Updated 16 Aug 2009)

Estimates a Student's t regression model

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Estimates a Student's t regression model:

y = X*beta + eps
where eps ~ Student's t (0, sigma, nu).

with nu > 2.

Parameters are estimated with maximum likelihood.

MATLAB release MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1)
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04 Nov 2010 Jeff Harris  
05 Nov 2010 Jeff Harris

This is an interesting form of robust regression. I checked the likelihood function, and it looks correct.

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16 Aug 2009

Added the restriction nu > 2.

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