At 10:19 AM 4/26/01 -0400, Gunter, Bert wrote:
>Ana:
>
>This is a BIG DEAL. There are many books and thousands of papers on
>robust/resistant regression (the terms are often used synonomously, although
>there is actually a difference in their meaning). Probably the best place to
>start, and maybe finish, is the "Robust Statistics" chapter of MASS, by
>Venables and Ripley (MASS = "Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus"). This
>book is ESSENTIAL for any serious S-Plus user, in my opinion. For more
>details on robust regression, an old, but still good, overview can be found
>in "Understanding Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis" by Hoaglin,
>Mosteller, and Tukey. Unfortunately, this may be out of print.
The original hardcover is out of print, but it has been available since
2000 as a paperback in the Wiley Classics Library.
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