Alternatives to the median absolute deviation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 88, Issue 424, 1993, Pages 1273-1283

  Rousseeuw, Peter J ^a   Croux, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bias curve; Breakdown point; Influence function; Robustness; Scale estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885933908     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1993.10476408     Document Type: Article

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