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Infinitesimally Robust estimation in general smoothly parametrized models

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The aim of the paper is to give a coherent account of the robustness approach based on shrinking neighborhoods in the case of i.i.d. observations, and add some theoretical complements. An important aspect of the approach is that it does not require any particular model structure but covers arbitrary parametric models if only smoothly parametrized. In the meantime, equal generality has been achieved by object-oriented implementation of the optimally robust estimators. Exponential families constitute the main examples in this article. Not pretending a complete data analysis, we evaluate the robust estimates on real datasets from literature by means of our R packages ROptEst and RobLox.

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Kohl, M., Ruckdeschel, P. & Rieder, H. Infinitesimally Robust estimation in general smoothly parametrized models. Stat Methods Appl 19, 333–354 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-010-0133-0

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