On a Geometric Notion of Quantiles for Multivariate Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 434, 1996, Pages 862-872

  Chaudhuri, Probal ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bahadur representation; Geometric quantiles; L estimation in multidimension; Multiresponse quantile regression; n1 2 consistent estimate; Spatial median; Trimmed multivariate mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030540155     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476954     Document Type: Article

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