Robust nonparametric inference for the median

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1841-1857

  Yohai, Víctor J ^a   Zamar, Ruben H ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Nonparametric; Robust; Two sided test

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344466276     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000634     Document Type: Article

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