Almost fully efficient and robust simultaneous estimation of location and scale parameters: A minimum distance approach

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 233-244

  Öztürk, Ömer ^a   Hettmansperger, Thomas P ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Cramer von Mises distance; Efficiency; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030565366     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(95)00178-6     Document Type: Article

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