New York: Springer, 1991. — 383 p.
This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications DIRECTIONS IN ROBUST STATISTICS AND DIAGNOSTICS is based on the proceedings of the first four weeks of the six week IMA 1989 summer program "Robustness, Diagnostics, Computing and Graphics in Statistics". An important objective of the organizers was to draw a broad set of statisticians working in robustness or diagnostics into collaboration on the challenging problems in these areas, particularly on the interface between them. We thank the organizers of the robustness and diagnostics program Noel Cressie, Thomas P. Hettmansperger, Peter J. Huber, R. Douglas Martin, and especially Werner Stahel and Sanford Weisberg who edited the proceedings. A vner Friedman Willard Miller, Jr. PREFACE Central themes of all statistics are estimation, prediction, and making decisions under uncertainty. A standard approach to these goals is through parametric mod elling. Parametric models can give a problem sufficient structure to allow standard, well understood paradigms to be applied to make the required inferences. If, how ever, the parametric model is not completely correct, then the standard inferential methods may not give reasonable answers. In the last quarter century, particularly with the advent of readily available computing, more attention has been paid to the problem of inference when the parametric model used is not correctly specified.
Small Sample Properties of Robust Analyses of Linear Models Based on R-Estimates: A Survey
Regression Diagnostics for Rank-Based Methods II
Robust Multivariate Spectral Analysis of the EEG
Configural Polysampling
Robustness to Unequal Scale and Other Departures from the Classical Linear Model
Unmasking Multivariate Outliers and Leverage Points by Means of BMDP3R
Glimpse: An Assessor of GLM Misspecification
Regression Quantile Diagnostics for Multiple Outliers
Robust Testing of Functionals
Robustness of the p -Subset Algorithm for Regression with High Breakdown Point
Robust Distances: Simulations and Cutoff Values
Diagnostics for Regression-Arma Time Series
General Approaches to Stepwise Identification of Unusual Values in Data Analysis
Research Directions in Robust Statistics
Comparisons Between First Order and Second Order Approximations in Regression Diagnostics
Consumer Datesware
Graphical Displays for Alternate Regression Fits
Some Issues in the Robust Estimation of Multivariate Location and Scatter
Adaptive Efficient Weighted Least Squares With Dependent Observations
A Procedure for Robust Estimation and Inference in Linear Regression