Robust Statistics: The Maximum Bias Curve
A Useful Tool for Evaluating the Breaking Point
3 min readMar 8, 2022
In the last article of this series, we introduced the problem of statistics with outliers, which can lead to erroneous regressions or misinterpretations about conclusions. We also described the influence function and how it can be used to measure how robust an estimator is to a small fraction of outliers. However…
