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The analysis of regression data is often improved by using a transformation of the response rather than the original response itself. However, finding a suitable transformation can be strongly affected by the influence of a few individual observations. Outliers can have an enormous impact on the fitting of statistical models and can be hard to detect due to masking and swamping. These difficulties are enhanced in the case of models for dependent observations, since any anomalies are with respect to the specific autocorrelation structure of the model. In this paper we develop a forward search approach which is able to robustly estimate the Box-Cox transformation parameter under a first-order spatial autoregression model.
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Cerioli, A., Riani, M. (2006). Robust Transformations and Outlier Detection with Autocorrelated Data. In: Spiliopoulou, M., Kruse, R., Borgelt, C., Nürnberger, A., Gaul, W. (eds) From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge Engineering. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31314-1_31
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