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Karen Kafadar1

  • 1National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC 20234.

Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards (1977)
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PubMed

Keywords:
M-estimatorbisquare weight functionbiweight scale estimatemedian absolute deviationtuning constant

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