Influence function and maximum bias of projection depth based estimators

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 189-218

  Zuo, Yijun ^a   Cui, Hengjian ^b   Young, Dennis ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Contamination sensitivity; Gross error sensitivity; Influence function; Maximum bias; Projection depth; Projection depth weighted mean; Projection median; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444367857     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1079120133     Document Type: Article

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