Robust regression using iteratively reweighted least-squares

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1977, Pages 813-827

  Welsch, Roy E ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

constants; one step estimates; ROSEPACK: robust weight functions: tuning; SLASH distribution; small sample variances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946263679     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610927708827533     Document Type: Article

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