Influence functions for a general class of depth-based generalized quantile functions

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 810-826

  Wang, Jin ^a   Serfling, Robert ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Generalized quantiles; Kurtosis; Multivariate analysis; Nonparametric methods; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644678116     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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