Depth weighted scatter estimators

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 381-413

  Zuo, Yijun ^a   Cui, Hengjian ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Breakdown point; Consistency; Depth, projection depth; Efficiency; Influence function; Maximum bias; Robustness; Scatter estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444365607     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000922     Document Type: Article

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