Breakdown points of t-type regression estimators

Biometrika

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 675-687

  He, Xuming ^a   Simpson, Douglas G ^a   Wang, Guangyu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Generalised M estimator; Likelihood; Linear regression; Robustness; t distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009409250     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/87.3.675     Document Type: Article

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