Least Absolute Deviation Regression Theory and Methods

This monograph deals with Introduction, Basic Concepts, Brief Review of Regression Theory. It present the work related to Least Absolute Deviations (LAD) Regression and its estimation theory with and without auto correlated errors. LAD and Least Squares estimation of censored regression model with fixed and marginal effects are also discussed. Further, it contains LAD estimation for linear and nonlinear regression model for truncated and censored data.

He is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics, Annamalai University, India. He has a good number of publications and presented many papers in the International and National Conferences.Dr. R. Elangovan is a professor in the same department. He has produced five Ph.D's and has a good number of publication