Asymptotics of an estimator of a robust spread functional

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 375-388

  Hössjer, Ola ^a   Rousseeuw, Peter J ^a   Croux, Christophe ^a  

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Author keywords

Breakdown point; Influence function; Order statistics; Scale estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344436040     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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