The fast-τ estimator for regression

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 659-682

  Salibian Barrera, Matias ^a   Willems, Gert ^b   Zamar, Ruben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Random resampling; Robust regression; Simulated annealing; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549095997     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186008X343785     Document Type: Article

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