Robust tobit regression for censored observations using extended Box-Cox Transformations

Riani, Marco, Atkinson, Anthony C., Corbellini, Aldo and Morelli, Gianluca (2025) Robust tobit regression for censored observations using extended Box-Cox Transformations. Statistical Methods and Applications. ISSN 1618-2510

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Abstract

Truncated regression data often occur in measuring consumer behaviour involving infrequent purchases. We consider data with truncation of the upper and lower tails of the response distribution at arbitrary values. If, in addition, the distribution of responses is also skewed, we use robust transformations of the response with the parametric Yeo–Johnson transformation to provide approximate normality for both positive and negative responses. Tests for the value of the transformation parameter use the signed square root of the loglikelihood ratio test. To achieve robustness we use the Forward Search which fits the model to data subsets of increasing size and so orders the observations by closeness to the fitted model. Monitoring the statistic for transformation during the Forward Search indicates an appropriate transformation. We initially exhibit the properties of our procedure on simulated data. Our practical regression analysis is of 493 observations derived from loyalty card data. 100 of the responses are censored at zero and there are ten explanatory variables.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Società Italiana di Statistica
Divisions:	Statistics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2025 11:06
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2025 06:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128489

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