On the multivariate spatial median for clustered data

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-231

  Nevalainen, Jaakko ^a   Larocque, Denis ^b   Hannu, Oja ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affine equivariance; Clustered data; Intracluster correlation; Multivariate location; Spatial median

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846695844     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550350202     Document Type: Article

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