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This chapter contains sections titled: Why Robust Regression? M-Estimators and W-Estimators for Regression Computation Example: The Stack Loss Data Bounded-Influence Regression Some Alternative Methods Summary
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- 2006
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- 10.1002/9781118150702.ch8