Robust statistics: conceptual and functional measures of robustness

Introduction

What this guide covers

Introduction Advanced Technical Research Treatise

Overview

Topics covered

• Introduction
• Robust Statistics: Conceptual and Functional Measures
• The crisis of the classical paradigm and the emergence of robustness
• 1.1 Tukey's asymptotic contamination model
• 1.2 The paradox of classical efficiency
• Statistical functionals and Fisher consistency

Related concepts

Main connections

• Mean & expected value
• Median & robust location
• Normal (Gaussian) distribution
• Calculus & differentiation
• Linear regression
• Variance & standard deviation

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