Why Write Statistical Software The Case of Robust Statistical Methods 英文论文文献.docVIP

WHY WRITE STATISTICAL SOFTWARE? THE CASE OF ROBUST STATISTICAL METHODS ARNOLD J. STROMBERG ABSTRACT . Robust statistical methods are designed to work well when classical assumptions, typically normality and/or the lack of outliers, are violated. Almost everyone agrees on the value of robust statistical pro- cedures. Nonetheless, after more than 40 years and thousands of papers, few robust methods were available in standard statistical software pack- ages until very recently. This paper argues that one of the primary reasons for the lack of ro- bust statistical methods in standard statistic