A practical affine equivariant multivariate median

Biometrika

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 851-860

  Hettmansperger, Thomas P ^a   Randles, Ronald H ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded influence; Breakdown; L1 median; Multivariate location estimate; Multivariate median; Oja median; Robust

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944574513     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/89.4.851     Document Type: Article

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