[R] m-estimators

[S Ellison]

check the robustbase package and rlm or hubers in MASS

You'll need to know which m-estimator you want, but both those packages
include at least some m-estimators.

Strictly, so does the base package; the mean is an m-estimator. Just
not a very robust one!

S Ellison

>>> Iasonas Lamprianou <lamprianou at yahoo.com> 06/08/2010 08:10:44 >>>

Dear colleagues

can somebody help me by showing how we can compute m-estimators in R?

thanks

Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou


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