Limit behavior of the empirical influence function of the median

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 331-340

  Croux, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Influence function; Location estimator; Robustness; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032579670     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(97)00135-1     Document Type: Article

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