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Robust Estimates of Location: Survey and Advances
By (Author) David F. Andrews
By (author) Frank R. Hampel
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
519.54
Hardback
384
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
879g
Because estimation involves inferring information about an unknown quantity on the basis of available data, the selection of an estimator is influenced by its ability to perform well under the conditions that are assumed to underlie the data. Since these conditions are never known exactly, the estimators chosen must be robust; i.e., they must be ab