Multivariate analysis by data depth: Descriptive statistics, graphics and inference

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 783-858

  Liu, Regina Y ^a   Parelius, Jesse M ^b   Singh, Kesar ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New York Times   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Data depth; DD plots; Depth ordering; Depth L statistics; Kurtosis; Location; Multivariate descriptive statistics; Multivariate normality; Multivariate ordering; Scale; Skewness; Sunburst plots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033147626     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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