Identification of Outliers in Multivariate Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 435, 1996, Pages 1047-1061

  Rocke, David M ^a   Woodruff, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristic search; M estimation; Minimum covariance determinant; S estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030344143     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476975     Document Type: Article

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