Positive-breakdown regression by minimizing nested scale estimators

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 197-235

  Croux, Christophe ^a   Rousseeuw, Peter J ^b   Van Bael, Annemie ^b  

^a Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bias curve; Breakdown point; Efficiency; Influence function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030586498     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00128-X     Document Type: Article

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