Influence functions of some depth functions, and application to depth-weighted L-statistics

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-66

  Dang, Xin ^a   Serfling, Robert ^b   Zhou, Weihua ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Depth function; Influence function; L statistic; Relative efficiency; Robustness; U statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849152419     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: 10290311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250802447981     Document Type: Article

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