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Breakdown Point Analysis

Breakdown point analysis quantifies the fraction of outliers an estimator can tolerate before it produces meaningless results. Formalised by Hampel (1971) and Donoho and Huber (1983), it is the standard tool for comparing the robustness of competing estimators.

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Breakdown Point Analysis of Estimators
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / statistics
  • Donoho, D. L. & Huber, P. J. (1983). The Notion of Breakdown Point. In A Festschrift for Erich L. Lehmann (pp. 157-184). Wadsworth. · URL
  • Hampel, F. R. (1971). A General Qualitative Definition of Robustness. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 42(6), 1887-1896. · DOI 10.1214/aoms/1177693054
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