Qualitative robustness of S*-estimators of multivariate location and dispersion1

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 257-268

  He, X ^a   Wang, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuity; Functional; Location and scatter; Metric; Qualitative robustness; S estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031489876     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9574.00054     Document Type: Article

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