[R] What are the pros and cons of the various R functions and methods for conducting least median of squares regression analysis?

[Bert Gunter]

No opinion (or expertise), but I think you may have missed the most
important one, Roger Koenker's package, quantreg:

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=quantreg

Cheers,
Bert


Bert Gunter

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On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 11:45 AM Kelly Thompson <kt1572757 using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What are the pros and cons of the various R functions and methods for
> conducting least median of squares regression analysis?
>
> I know about these:
>
> lqs, wth method = "lms" and lmsreg, which as I understan dit are equivalent
>
> Mentions:
> https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/MASS/versions/7.3-56/topics/lqs
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-October/115681.html
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-March/126564.html
> -----
>
> ltsReg
>
> https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/robustbase/versions/0.1-2/topics/ltsReg
> -----
> nl.lmsNM
> https://rdrr.io/cran/nlr/man/nl.lmsNM.html
>
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