Projection estimates of multivariate location

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1760-1781

  Adrover, Jorge ^a   Yohai, Víctor ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Maximum bias; Multivariate location; Projection estimates; Robust estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036998887     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1043351256     Document Type: Article

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