New Statistical Robust Estimators, Open Problems

G Zioutas, C Chatzinakos, A Migdalas - Open Problems in Optimization …, 2018 - Springer
The goal of robust statistics is to develop methods that are robust against outliers in the data.
We emphasize on high breakdown estimators, which can deal with heavy contamination in …

[PDF][PDF] An introduction to robust estimation with R functions

R Bellio, L Ventura - Proceedings of 1st international Work, 2005 - academia.edu
Since 1960, many theoretical efforts have been devoted to develop statistical procedures
that are resistant to small deviations from the assumptions, ie robust with respect to outliers …

[PDF][PDF] Robustness

M Hubert, P Rousseeuw, S Van Aelst - 2004 - lirias.kuleuven.be
When applying a statistical method in practice it often occurs that some observations deviate
from the usual assumptions. However, many classical methods are sensitive to outliers. The …

[PDF][PDF] BREAKDOWN AND EFFICIENCY IN ROBUST REGRESSION

M Riani, A Cerioli, F Torti - Proceedings of SCO 2011, 2011 - stat206.econ.unipr.it
In this paper we consider regression data possibly contaminated with the presence of
multiple outliers. The goal of this work is to compare the information which can be extracted …

Robustness in practice

P Filzmoser - International Conference on Robust …, 2016 - icors2016.sciencesconf.org
During the last decades, a lot of effort has been made in the development of robust statistical
methods. Nowadays, many robust counterparts to traditional non-robust methods are …

Statistical robustness: One view of its use in applications today

RV Hogg - The American Statistician, 1979 - Taylor & Francis
Users of statistical packages need to be aware of the influence that outlying data points can
have on their statistical analyses. Robust procedures provide formal methods to spot these …

Editorial, special issue on “Advances in Robust Statistics”

M Riani, M Hubert - Metron, 2021 - Springer
Starting with 2020 volume, the journal Metron has decided to celebrate the centenary since
its foundation with three special issues. This volume is dedicated to robust statistics. A …

[PDF][PDF] Robust estimation and identifying outliers

PJ Rousseeuw - Handbook of statistical methods for engineers …, 1990 - wis.kuleuven.be
The least-squares method is currently the most popular approach to estimation because of
tradition and ease of computation. However, real data sets frequently contain outliers, which …

Outliers detection with the minimum covariance determinant estimator in practice

C Fauconnier, G Haesbroeck - Statistical Methodology, 2009 - Elsevier
Robust statistics have slowly become familiar to all practitioners. Books entirely devoted to
the subject (eg [RA Maronna, RD Martin, VJ Yohai, Robust Statistics: Theory and Methods …

[PDF][PDF] Robustness for dummies

V Verardi, M Gassner, D Ugarte - … at 2012 UK Stata Users Group …, 2012 - researchgate.net
In the robust statistics literature, a wide variety of models have been devel% oped to cope
with outliers in a rather large number of scenarios. Nevertheless, a recurrent problem for the …