Orthogonalization of multivariate location estimators: The orthomedian

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1457-1473

  Grübel, Rudolf ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Multivariate median; Orthogonal equivariance; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040159656     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032298277     Document Type: Article

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