Asymptotics of reweighted estimators of multivariate location and scatter

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1638-1665

  Lopuhaä, Hendrik P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Application of empirical process theory; Reweignted least squares; Robust estimation of multivariate location and covariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033233738     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1017939145     Document Type: Article

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