A performance-based assessment of robust regression methods

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1031-1049

  Simpson, James R ^a   Montgomery, Douglas C ^b  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded influence; Breakdown; Efficiency; Estimates of leverage; Iteratively reweighted least squares; Monte Carlo simulation; Outliers; Robust regression estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348228251     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919808813524     Document Type: Article

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