Distributed multivariate regression with unknown noise covariance in the presence of outliers: An MDL approach

Roberto Lopez-Valcarce, Daniel Romero, Josep Sala, Alba Pages-Zamora

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Abstract

We consider the problem of estimating the coefficients in a multivariable linear model by means of a wireless sensor network which may be affected by anomalous measurements. The noise covariance matrices at the different sensors are assumed unknown. Treating outlying samples, and their support, as additional nuisance parameters, the Maximum Likelihood estimate is investigated, with the number of outliers being estimated according to the Minimum Description Length principle. A distributed implementation based on iterative consensus techniques is then proposed, and it is shown effective for managing outliers in the data.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 19th IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, SSP 2016
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781467378024
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 24 2016
Event19th IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, SSP 2016 - Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Duration: Jun 25 2016Jun 29 2016

Publication series

NameIEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing Proceedings
Volume2016-August

Other

Other19th IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, SSP 2016
Country/TerritorySpain
CityPalma de Mallorca
Period6/25/166/29/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Multivariate regression
  • distributed estimation
  • outliers
  • wireless sensor networks

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