On the uniqueness of S-functionals and M-functionals under nonelliptical distributions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1219-1243

  Tatsuoka, Kay S ^a   Tyler, David E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CM estimates; Elliptical distributions; M estimates; Majorization; Minimum volume ellipsoid; MM estimates; Permutation invariance; Robustness; S estimates; Schur concavity; Symmetric exchangeable distributions; Unimodal distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034237950     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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