Convergence of depth contours for multivariate datasets

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 495-504

  He, Xuming ^a   Wang, Gang ^b  

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

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contour; Convergence; Data depth; Elliptic distributions; Location scatter; M estimator; Multivariate dataset; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031519463     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1031833661     Document Type: Article

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