Implementing the Bianco and Yohai estimator for logistic regression

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 273-295

  Croux, Christophe ^a   Haesbroeck, Gentiane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Influence function; Logistic regression; Maximum likelihood; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ROBUST ESTIMATOR;

DATA REDUCTION;

NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141993253     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00042-2     Document Type: Article

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