Optimal locally robust M-estimates of regression

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 309-323

  Yohai, Víctor J ^b   Zamar, Ruben H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bias robustness; Gross error sensitivity; Hampel problem; Maximum bias function; Residual admissibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031573362     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(97)00040-2     Document Type: Article

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