“…The weight function λ t7 is plotted in Figure 3.1, along with λ N . Note that λ t7 (x) and λ N (x) are fairly similar except near x = 1. relatively efficient (see, for example, Hettmansperger and McKean, 1998, Andrews, Davis, and Breidt, 2007, and Andrews, 2008. In the case of linear model estimation, λ W is the optimal weight function when the noise distribution is logistic and, for R-estimation of GARCH model parameters, λ W is optimal when ln(Z 2 t )…”