The minimum sum of absolute errors regression: A robust alternative to the least squares regression

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1401-1417

  Narula, Subhash C ^a   Saldiva, Paulo H N ^b   Andre, Carmen D S ^b   Elian, Silvia N ^b   Ferreira, Aurea Favero ^b   Capelozzi, Vera ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033564816     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990615)18:11<1401::AID-SIM136>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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