Highly robust estimation of dispersion matrices

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-36

  Ma, Yanyuan ^a   Genton, Marc G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Breakdown point; componentwise; influence function; robustness; scale estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035402338     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.2000.1942     Document Type: Article

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