Minimum volume ellipsoid

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-82

  Van Aelst, Stefan ^a   Rousseeuw, Peter ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIVARIANCE; LOW BIAS; MULTIVARIATE DATA; OUTLIER DETECTION; RESAMPLING ALGORITHMS; ROBUST DISTANCE; ROBUST ESTIMATORS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 78650332930     PISSN: 19395108     EISSN: 19390068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wics.19     Document Type: Review

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