Robust Statistics (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) - Softcover

Huber, Peter J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471650722 ISBN 13: 9780471650720

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

The first systematic, book-length treatment of the subject. Begins with a general introduction and the formal mathematical background behind qualitative and quantitative robustness. Stresses concepts. Provides selected numerical algorithms for computing robust estimates, as well as convergence proofs. Tables contain quantitative robustness information for a variety of estimates.

About this title

About the Author

Peter J. Huber was formerly a Professor of Statistics at Harvard University and ETH Zurich. Dr. Huber received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from ETH Zurich in 1961.

From the Back Cover

WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES
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.

From the Reviews of Robust Statistics

"Robust Statistics is required reading for anyone involved in robustness research or desiring to start a research program in robustness."
?Journal of the American Statistical Association

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471650722
• ISBN 13: 9780471650720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328