On locally uniformly linearizable high breakdown location and scale functionals

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1103-1125

  Davies, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coarsening; Stability; Uniform asymptotics; Uniform bootstrapping; Uniform linearizability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032359621     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691090     Document Type: Article

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