In this paper, we consider a linear regression model with AR(p) error terms with the assumption that the error terms have a t distribution as a heavy tailed alternative to the normal distribution. We obtain the estimators for the model parameters by using the conditional maximum likelihood (CML) method. We conduct an iteratively reweighting algorithm (IRA) to find the estimates for the parameters of interest. We provide a simulation study and three real data examples to illustrate the performance of the proposed robust estimators based on t distribution.

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Parameter estimation and the variable selection are two pioneer issues in regression analysis. While traditional variable selection methods require prior estimation of the model parameters, the penalized methods simultaneously carry on parameter estimation and variable select. Therefore, penalized variable selection methods are of great interest and have been extensively studied in literature. However, most of the papers in literature are only limited to the regression models with uncorrelated error terms and normality assumption. In this study, we combine the parameter estimation and the variable selection in regression models with autoregressive error term by using different penalty functions under heavy tailed error distribution assumption. We conduct a simulation study and a real data example to show the performance of the estimators.

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Marshall-Olkin extended Burr XII (MOEBXII) distribution is proposed by Al-Saiari et al. (2014) to obtain a more ‡exible family of distributions. Some estimation methods like maximum likelihood, Bayes and M estimations are used to estimate the parameters of the MOEBXII distribution in literature. In this paper, we propose to use Maximum Lq (MLq) estimation method to …nd alternative estimators for the parameters of the MOEBXII distribution. We give some simulation studies and a real data example to compare the performance of the MLq estimators with the maximum likelihood and M estimators. According to our results MLq estimation method is a good alternative to the maximum likelihood and M estimation methods in the presence of outliers.