Asymptotics for the least trimmed squares estimator

Despite the empirical version of least trimmed squares (LTS) in regression (Rousseeuw \cite{R84}) having been repeatedly studied in the literature, the population version of LTS has never been introduced. Novel properties of the objective function in both empirical and population settings of the LTS, along with other properties, are established for the first time in this article. The primary properties of the objective function facilitate the establishment of other original results, including the influence function and Fisher consistency. The strong consistency is established with the help of a generalized Glivenko-Cantelli Theorem over a class of functions. Differentiability and stochastic equicontinuity promote the establishment of asymptotic normality with a concise and novel approach.