Error rates for multivariate outlier detection

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 544-553

  Cerioli, Andrea ^a   Farcomeni, Alessio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

False discovery exceedance; False discovery rate; Masking and swamping; Multiple outliers; Reweighted MCD

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; STATISTICS;

FALSE DISCOVERY EXCEEDANCE; FALSE DISCOVERY RATE; HIGH BREAKDOWN ESTIMATORS; MULTIPLE OUTLIERS; MULTIVARIATE OUTLIER DETECTION; MULTIVARIATE OUTLIERS; OUTLIER DETECTION; REWEIGHTED MCD;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 77958046457     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.05.021     Document Type: Article

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