The influence function and maximum bias of Tukey's median

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1737-1759

  Chen, Zhiqiang ^a   Tyler, David E ^b  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination bias; Contamination sensitivity; Gross error sensitivity; Halfspace depth; Halfspace median; Influence function; Multivariate median; Robustness; Tukey's depth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037004438     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1043351255     Document Type: Article

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