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August 2003 John Tukey and Robustness
Karen Kafadar
Statist. Sci. 18(3): 319-331 (August 2003). DOI: 10.1214/ss/1076102419

Abstract

John Tukey's impact on statistics, and on science in general, is broad and lasting. This article discusses some of these contributions, with a special emphasis on those that led to the development of robust methods and data exploration. In view of today's emphasis on data mining techniques, the recollection of Tukey's influence is especially timely.

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Karen Kafadar. "John Tukey and Robustness." Statist. Sci. 18 (3) 319 - 331, August 2003. https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1076102419

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Published: August 2003
First available in Project Euclid: 6 February 2004

MathSciNet: MR2056573
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/ss/1076102419

Keywords: biweight , boxplot , contaminated normal distributions , exploratory data analysis , Gaussian distributions , long-tailed distributions , Robust methods , statistical graphics , time series

Rights: Copyright © 2003 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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