High Breakdown Estimation for Multiple Populations with Applications to Discriminant Analysis

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 151-162

  He, Xuming ^a   Fung, Wing K ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Discriminant analysis; Outlier; Robust methods; S estimator; Two sample problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011908457     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1999.1857     Document Type: Article

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