Hi, Thanks to Mr June Elijah Simakani, Abrahams, Ian [OCDGB] , Isaac Dialsingh and Tim O'Brien. Here is a summary of the repies. Cheers, Nantana Na Ranong --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The original email: Dear allstat-members, I would appreciate if someone could explain (or provide citations) how to find any paper to deal with Least-absolute-deviations (LAD),Huber M-, nonparametric rank-based,robust,Bayesian and ridge regression which has as the mean-squared error (MSE),as w ll as, a WWW search for these because I would like to compare MSE estimates in these six methods in my research. Any suggestion ? Thanks I saw something about these in a book written by David Birkes &Yadolah Dodge , Alternative Methods of Regression (1993) but it was not enough for me. Many thanks! Cheers, Nantana Na Ranong Lecturer in statistics Thaksin University, Thailand --------------------------------------------------------- Replies: Date Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:13:31 0200 To [log in to unmask] Author "Mr J Simakani" <[log in to unmask]> Subject Re: References Hi! Take a look at the following: 1.Huynh,H.(1982): A comparison of Four Approaches to Robust Regression. Psychological Bulletin, vol.92, no.2, pp 505-512. 2. Basset,G., Jr., & Koenker,R.(1978): Asymptotic theory of least absolute regression. JASA, vol.73, 618-622. 3. Gentle,J.E.(1977): Least Absolute values estimation: An introduction. Communication in Statistics, vol.B6, 313-328. Start with no.1 above. Yours sincerely, June E. Simakani ********************************************************************** June Elijah Simakani,MSc, GradDip(Stats), DTE, C.Stat Department of Statistics University of Transkei Private Bag X1, Unitra Umtata 5117, South Africa Tel.no: 27(47) 502 2529(work) 27(47) 532 6380(res) Fax.no: 27(47) 502 2725 or 502 2525 ********************************************************************** Date Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:29:52 0200 To "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Author "Abrahams, Ian [OCDGB]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject RE: Alternative Methods of Regression I would suggest the book "Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis testing" by Rand R Wilcox, Published by Academic Press, 1997 ISBN 0-12-751545-3 -------------------------------------------- Date Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:21:08 -0400 To <[log in to unmask]> Author "Isaac Dialsingh" <[log in to unmask]> Subject Re: Alternative Methods of Regression Try Walpole and Myers- Statistics for Engineers Cheers Isaac %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%