The mean and median absolute deviations

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 34, Issue 7-8, 2001, Pages 921-936

  Pham Gia, T ^a   Hung, T L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b HUE UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Contamination; Estimation; Gini index; Mean absolute deviation; Median absolute deviation; Peters formula; Robustness; Sampling distributions; Skewness; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034815860     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7177(01)00109-1     Document Type: Article

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