It's not often one gets needs to correct Gabor, but no, .... least median of squares is not the same as least absolute error regression.
Take a look at the package robust if you want the lms. url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Try rq in quantreg using the default value for tau. > > On 2/28/07, lalitha viswanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi >> I am looking for suitable packages in R that do >> regression analyses using least median squares method >> (or better). Additionally, I am also looking for >> packages that implement algorithms/methods for >> detecting outliers that can be discarded before doing >> the regression analyses. >> >> Although some websites refer to "lms" method under >> package "lps" in R, I am unable to find such a package >> on CRAN. >> >> I would greatly appreciate any pointers to suitable >> functions/packages for doing the above analyses. >> >> Thanks >> Lalitha >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> _______________ >> TV dinner still cooling? >> Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >> guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
