On the Stahel-Donoho estimator and depth-weighted means of multivariate data

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 167-188

  Zuo, Yijun ^a   Cui, Hengjian ^b   He, Xuming ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Breakdown point; Depth; Efficiency; L estimator; Projection depth; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348123393     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1079120132     Document Type: Article

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