Maximum deviation curves for location estimators

Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 285-305

  Croux, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bias curve; Breakdown point; Location estimator; Maximum deviation; Robustness; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043229464     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331889708802566     Document Type: Article

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