High breakdown estimators for principal components: The projection-pursuit approach revisited

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 206-226

  Croux, Christophe ^a   Ruiz Gazen, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Dispersion matrix; Influence function; Principal components analysis; Projection pursuit; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744376591     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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