Blankmeyer, Eric2011-10-102012-02-242011-10Blankmeyer, E. (2011). Errors in variables or bad leverage at some observations? Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/4102Errors-in-variables is a long-standing, difficult issue in linear regression; and progress depends in part on new identifying assumptions. I characterize measurement error as bad-leverage points and assume that fewer than half the sample observations are heavily contaminated, in which case a high-breakdown robust estimator may be able to isolate and downweight or discard the problematic data. In simulations of simple and multiple regression where eiv affected 25% of the data and R2 was mediocre, one high-breakdown estimator had small bias, very good coverage, and precision that improved when the sample size increased.Text24 pages1 file (.pdf)enerrors in variablesmeasurement errorhigh-breakdown estimatorminimum covariance determinantorthogonal regressionPaper