I am trying to determine if two regression estimates are different. The first is obtained by ordinary least squares (OLS) and the second is obtained by M-estimation.
As a minimum example, fits for the "Stack Loss Data" (Montgomery et al. 2001 - Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis, pg. 397) are:
OLS: $\hat{y} = -39.9 +0.72x_1 + 1.30x_2 - 0.15x_3$ and M-estimation (Andrews Sine, a = 1.5): $\hat{y} = -37.2 + 0.82x_1 + 0.52x_2 - 0.07x_3$.
Is there a hypothesis test that I could use? From what I've read so far, an ordinary t-test isn't applicable to robust estimates. Please bear with me, I'm a geophysicist who has learned a lot of statistics on the fly.
To clarify, to show that they are different means that they come from different populations, right? From what I understand, M-estimates are asymptotically normal.