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Re: robust location estimators

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From: ibidem
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 03:58
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> ... why robust location estimators have not become more popular.

One answer might be: too many candidates, with too many differing
theoretical optimality properties. As it stands, the problem of
robust estimation is not reasonably well-defined. It will take a
new approach, I suspect, at some future date. 
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From: beran@wizzle.Berkeley.EDU (ibidem)
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Subject: Re: robust location estimators
Keywords: robust estimation, biweight, trimmed mean, median, mean
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