Logistic discrimination using robust estimators: An influence function approach

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 157-174

  Croux, Christophe ^a   Haesbroeck, Gentiane ^b   Joossens, Kristel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Classification; Diagnostic; Discrimination; Efficiency; Error rate; Influence function; Logistic regression; Robustness.

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649150727     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550360114     Document Type: Article

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