ROBUST
STATISTICS
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RO
B
U
ST
STAT1
STI
CS
Second
Edition
Peter
J,
Huber
Professor
of
Statistics, retired
Klosters, Switzerland
Elvezio
Ma
Ronchetti
Professor of Statistics
University
of
Geneva, Switzerland
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Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Huber, Peter
J.
p. cm.
Robust statistics, second edition
/
Peter
J.
Huber, Elvezio Ronchetti.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-12990-6 (cloth)
1.
Robust statistics.
I.
Ronchetti, Elvezio. 11. Title.
QA276.H785 2009
519.5-dc22 2008033283
Printed in the United States of America
10987654321
To
the
memory
of
John
W
Tukey