Bias-robust

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Describing statistics that are relatively unbiased even when some assumptions about the data or the model do not hold true.

    "The theory of bias-robust regression [ Mar89 ] provides guidelines for the selection of good robust estimators. For calculating beta, either of the following two bias-robust estimators work quite well: (a) an adaptive least trimmed squares estimate, and (b) an MM estimate of [Yoh88], computed as suggested in [Yoh91]."

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"The theory of bias-robust regression [ Mar89 ] provides guidelines for the selection of good robust estimators. For calculating beta, either of the following two bias-robust estimators work quite well: (a) an adaptive least trimmed squares estimate, and (b) an MM estimate of [Yoh88], computed as suggested in [Yoh91]."

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