Maxbias curves of robust location estimators based on subranges

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 295-306

  Croux, Christophe ^a   Haesbroeck, Gentiane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breakdown value; Location estimator; Maxbias curve; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036626309     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250212378     Document Type: Article

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