Spatial sign preprocessing: A simple way to impart moderate robustness to multivariate estimators

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1402-1409

  Serneels, Sven ^a   De Nolf, Evert ^a   Van Espen, Pierre J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CHEMICAL DATA ANALYSIS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; SPATIAL SIGN; SPATIAL SIGN PREPROCESSING;

MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745700397     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci050498u     Document Type: Article

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