Stahel-Donoho estimators with cellwise weights

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-27

  van Aelst, S ^a   Vandervieren, E ^b   Willems, G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contamination models; Outlier identification; Robust multivariate estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650279050     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650903103873     Document Type: Article

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