Biased bootstrap methods for reducing the effects of contamination

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 661-680

  Hall, Peter ^a,b   Presnell, Brett ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased bootstrap; Empirical likelihood; Influence; Inlier; Local linear smoothing; Multivariate analysis; Nonparametric curve estimation; Outlier; Regression; Robust statistical methods; Trimming; Weighted bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000238125     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00199     Document Type: Article

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