Robust measures of tail weight

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 733-759

  Brys, Guy ^a   Hubert, Mia ^b   Struyf, Anja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit test; Kurtosis; Robustness; Tail weight

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WEIGHING;

FINITE MOMENTS; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; KURTOSIS; TAIL WEIGHT;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 25444476501     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2004.09.012     Document Type: Article

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