A complete, balanced introduction to the concepts, theory and applications of robust statistics, this book provides a comprehensive account of the infinitesimal approach and offers insight into the robustness properties of existing procedures. It describes the effect of an outlier on virtually all classical statistical models and covers related notions such as the breakdown point and the change-of-variance functions. The cloth edition of this book was published in February 1986.

Robust Statistics: The Approach Based on Influence Functions (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hampel, Frank R.

Psychology & Counseling

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

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"This is a nice book containing a wealth of information, much of it due to the authors. . . . If an instructor designing such a course wanted a textbook, this book would be the best choice available. . . . There are many stimulating exercises, and the book also contains an excellent index and an extensive list of references." ―Technometrics "[This] book should be read carefully by anyone who is interested in dealing with statistical models in a realistic fashion." ―American Scientist Introducing concepts, theory, and applications, Robust Statistics is accessible to a broad audience, avoiding allusions to high-powered mathematics while emphasizing ideas, heuristics, and background. The text covers the approach based on the influence function (the effect of an outlier on an estimater, for example) and related notions such as the breakdown point. It also treats the change-of-variance function, fundamental concepts and results in the framework of estimation of a single parameter, and applications to estimation of covariance matrices and regression parameters.

Robust Statistics: The Approach Based on Influence Functions

Science & Math

Rousseeuw, Peter J.

Ronchetti, Elvezio M.

Stahel, Werner A.

Mathematics

Wiley-Interscience

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. 
"This is a nice book containing a wealth of information, much of it due to the authors. . . . If an instructor designing such a course wanted a textbook, this book would be the best choice available. . . . There are many stimulating exercises, and the book also contains an excellent index and an extensive list of references." —Technometrics "[This] book should be read carefully by anyone who is interested in dealing with statistical models in a realistic fashion." —American Scientist Introducing concepts, theory, and applications, Robust Statistics is accessible to a broad audience, avoiding allusions to high-powered mathematics while emphasizing ideas, heuristics, and background. The text covers the approach based on the influence function (the effect of an outlier on an estimater, for example) and related notions such as the breakdown point. It also treats the change-of-variance function, fundamental concepts and results in the framework of estimation of a single parameter, and applications to estimation of covariance matrices and regression parameters.

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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 able to perform well under a variety of underlying conditions. The theory of robust estimation is based on specified properties of specified estimators under specified conditions. This book was written as the result of a study undertaken to establish the interaction of these three components over as large a range as possible.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Robust Estimates of Location: Survey and Advances (Princeton Legacy Library)

Andrews, David F.

Princeton University Press

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