Theory and applications of recent robust methods. Selected papers of the international conference on robust statistics 2003, ICORS 2003, Antwerp, Belgium, July 13--18, 2003. (Q1882103)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Adrover, J. G.; Yohai, V. J.}, Bias behavior of the minimum volume ellipsoid estimate, 1-12 [Zbl 1088.62070] \textit{Aucremanne, L.; Brys, G.; Hubert, M.; Rousseeuw, P. J.; Struyf, A.}, A study of Belgian inflation, relative prices and nominal rigidities using new robust measures of skewness and tail weight, 13-25 [Zbl 1088.62135] \textit{Basset, G.; Gerber, G.; Rocco, P.}, Robust strategies for quantitative investment management, 27-37 [Zbl 1088.62065] \textit{Chen, C.}, An adaptive algorithm for quantile regression, 39-48 [Zbl 1088.62092] \textit{Christmann, A.}, On properties of support vector machines for pattern recognition in finite samples, 49-58 [Zbl 1091.65008] \textit{Çižek, P.}, Smoothed local \(L\)-estimation with an application, 59-70 [Zbl 1089.62040] \textit{Copt, S.; Victoria-Feser, M.-P.}, Fast algorithms for computing high breakdown covariance matrices with missing data, 71-82 [Zbl 1130.62056] \textit{Dimova, R. B.; Neykov, N. M.}, Generalized \(d\)-fullness technique for breakdown point study of the trimmed likelihood estimator with application, 83-91 [Zbl 1088.62045] \textit{Durio, A.; Isaia, E. D.}, On robustness to outliers of parametric \(L_2\) estimate criterion in the case of bivariate normal mixtures: a simulation study, 93-104 [Zbl 1088.62073] \textit{Engelen, S.; Hubert, M.; Vanden Branden, K.; Verboven, S.}, Robust PCR and robust PLSR: a comparative study, 105-117 [Zbl 1088.62076] \textit{Hingley, P. J.}, Analytic estimator densities for common parameters under misspecified models, 119-130 [Zbl 1088.62032] \textit{Joossens, K.; Croux, C.}, Empirical comparison of the classification performance of robust linear and quadratic discriminant analysis, 131-140 [Zbl 1088.62079] \textit{Jurečková, J.; Picek, J.}, Estimates of the tail index based on nonparametric tests, 141-152 [Zbl 1088.62063] \textit{Kankainen, A.; Taskinen, S.; Oja, H.}, On Mardia's tests of multinormality, 153-164 [Zbl 1088.62075] \textit{Kharin, A.}, Robustness in sequential discrimination of Markov chains under ``contamination'', 165-171 [Zbl 1088.62097] \textit{Marazzi, A.; Yohai, V. J.}, Robust Box-Cox transformations for simple regression, 173-182 [Zbl 1088.62083] \textit{Mašíček, L.}, Consistency of the least weighted squares regression estimator, 183-194 [Zbl 1088.62037] \textit{Morgenthaler, S.; Welsch, R. E.; Zenide, A.}, Algorithms for robust model selection in linear regression, 195-206 [Zbl 1088.62084] \textit{Mount, D. M.; Netanyahu, N. S.; Zuck, E.}, Analyzing the number of samples required for an approximate Monte-Carlo LMS line estimator, 207-219 [Zbl 1088.62085] \textit{Olive, D. J.}, Visualizing 1D regression, 221-233 [Zbl 1088.62090] \textit{Oliveira, M. R.; Branco, J. A.; Croux, C.; Filzmoser, P.}, Robust redundancy analysis by alternating regression, 235-246 [Zbl 1088.62046] \textit{Ollila, E.; Koivunen, V.}, Robust ML-estimation of the transmitter location, 247-258 [Zbl 1088.62033] \textit{Ortega, J. F.}, A family of scale estimators by means of trimming, 259-269 [Zbl 1088.62048] \textit{Ortelli, C.; Trojani, F.}, Robust efficient method of moments estimation, 271-282 [Zbl 1088.62104] \textit{Rafalin, E.; Souvaine, D. L.}, Computational geometry and statistical depth measures, 283-295 [Zbl 1088.62067] \textit{Scott, D. W.}, Partial mixture estimation and outlier detection in data and regression, 297-306 [Zbl 1087.62066] \textit{Suter, D.; Wang, H.}, Robust fitting using mean shift: applications in computer vision, 307-318 [Zbl 1088.62047] \textit{Syed Yahaya, S. S.; Othman, A. R.; Keselman, H. J.}, Testing the equality of location parameters for skewed distributions using \(S_1\) with high breakdown robust scale estimators, 319-328 [Zbl 1088.62030] \textit{Taskinen, S.; Kankainen, A.; Oja, H.}, Rank scores tests of multivariate independence, 329-341 [Zbl 1102.62048] \textit{Thomassen, L.; van Wouwe, M.}, The influence of a stochastic interest rate on the \(n\)-fold compound option, 343-353 [Zbl 1171.91344] \textit{Toma, A.}, Robust estimations for multivariate \(Sinh^{-1}\)-normal distribution, 355-366 [Zbl 1089.62058] \textit{Vandewalle, B.; Beirlant, J.; Hubert, M.}, A robust estimator of the tail index based on an exponential regression model, 367-376 [Zbl 1088.62064] \textit{Vanlanduit, S.; Guillaume, P.}, Robust processing of mechanical vibration measurements, 377-385 [Zbl 1170.74340] \textit{Zioutas, G.}, Quadratic mixed integer programming models in minimax robust regression estimators, 387-400 [Zbl 1088.62087]