Robust Estimation for Grouped Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 437, 1997, Pages 333-340

  Victoria Feser, Maria Pia ^a   Ronchetti, Elvezio ^b,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Grouping effects; Influence function; Local shift sensitivity; M estimators; Minimum Hellinger distance estimators; Minimum power divergence estimators; Optimal B robust estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031482359     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473631     Document Type: Article

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