Date of Award
2010-01-01
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Mathematical Sciences
Advisor(s)
Ori Rosen
Abstract
Datasets often exhibit heavy tailed behavior and standard analyses are often heavily influenced by outliers. We propose a nonparametric regression model whose error term distribution is a mixture of a normal and a Student t distribution. This results in a model that is more resistant to outliers compared to a model with a normal error term.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2010
File Size
66 pages
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Courtney Marie Barnes
Recommended Citation
Barnes, Courtney Marie, "Bayesian Nonparametric Regression with a Flexible Error Term Distribution" (2010). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 2643.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/2643