Robust Statistics
Subtitle: The Approach Based on Influence Functions (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: April 6, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780471735779
First sentence: Robust statistics, in a loose, nontechnical sense, is concerned with the fact that many assumptions commonly made in statistics (such as normality, linearity, independence) are at most approximations to reality.