Robustness properties of S-estimators of multivariate location and shape in high dimension

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1327-1345

  Rocke, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Efficiency; Gross error sensitivity; Local shift sensitivity; Outlier rejection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030500928     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032526972     Document Type: Article

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