Multivariate spatial U-quantiles: A Bahadur-Kiefer representation, a Theil-Sen estimator for multiple regression, and a robust dispersion estimator

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1660-1678

  Zhou, Weihua ^a   Serfling, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion estimation; Generalized spatial quantiles; Multivariate analysis; Nonparametric methods; Strong convergence; Theil Sen estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449139899     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.05.043     Document Type: Article

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