Functional stability of one-step GM-estimators in approximately linear regression

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1147-1169

  Simpson, Douglas G ^a   Yohai, Victor J ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Maximum bias function; Newton Raphson; Robust statistics; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032345498     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691092     Document Type: Article

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