Addendum to the discussion of ``Breakdown and groups

DOI10.1214/009053606000000399MaRDI QIDQ2500464zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ursula Gather, Laurie Davies

Publication date 24 August 2006

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0507089

zbMATH Keywords

breakdowndirectional dataequivariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric robustness (62G35) Directional data; spatial statistics (62H11)

Abstract: In his discussion of Davies and Gather [Ann. Statist. 33 (2005) 977--1035] [math.ST/0508497] Tyler pointed out that the theory developed there could not be applied to the case of directional data. He related the breakdown of directional functionals to the problem of definability. In this addendum we provide a concept of breakdown defined in terms of definability and not in terms of bias. If a group of finite order $k$ acts on the sample space we show that the breakdown point can be bounded above by $(k-1)/k$. In the case of directional data there is a group of order $k=2$ giving an upper bound of 1/2.

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