Features and performance of some outlier detection methods

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2133-2149

  Barbato, G ^a   Barini, E M ^a   Genta, G ^a   Levi, R ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exclusion rules; Order statistics; Outliers; Robust statistics; Statistical test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860398736     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2010.545119     Document Type: Review

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