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Permanents, Order Statistics, Outliers, and Robustness
N. BALAKRISHNAN
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1

bala@mcmaster.ca

Received: November 20, 2006
Accepted: January 15, 2007

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we consider order statistics and outlier models, and focus primarily on multiple-outlier models and associated robustness issues. We first synthesise recent developments on order statistics arising from independent and non-identically distributed random variables based primarily on the theory of permanents. We then highlight various applications of these results in evaluating the robustness properties of several linear estimators when multiple outliers are possibly present in the sample.

Key words: order statistics, permanents, log-concavity, outliers, single-outlier model, multiple-outlier model, recurrence relations, robust estimators, sensitivity, bias, mean square error, location-outlier, scale-outlier, censoring, progressive Type-II censoring, ranked set sampling.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:
62E15, 62F10, 62F35, 62G30, 62G35, 62N01.