A family of adaptive robust estimates based on the symmetrical generalized logistic distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1293-1310

  Li, Baibing ^a   De Moor, Bart ^a  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

L1 L2 estimate; Regression; Robust estimate; Symmetrical generalized logistic distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844485901     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929908832358     Document Type: Article

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