Using ideas and techniques from related disciplines frequently proves productive and often yields new insights and methods. In this paper, a method from experimental design is applied to the robust estimation of multivariate location and scatter. In particular, the procedure of determining discrete
Robust estimation of multivariate location and shape
β Scribed by David M. Rocke; David L. Woodruff
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 555 KB
- Volume
- 57
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-3758
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β¦ Synopsis
In this paper, we describe an overall strategy for robust estimation of multivariate location and shape, and the consequent identification of outliers and leverage points. Parts of this strategy have been described in a series of previous papers (Rocke,
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