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[RsR] hubers m-estimator in R / SPSS

2 messages · Manfred Hammerl

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hello, i'm new to robust statistics but found out very quick that R 
(used huber, hubers and huberM) and SPSS (huber m-estimator) calculate 
different location estimates, given the same tuning constant k. since 
the differences a really not very small, i wanted to get some detailed 
information about this but i couldn't find out which algorithm SPSS uses 
to calculate hubers estimator so far...

does anyone know something about SPSS's huber function?

greetings,

manfred
#
hello, i'm new to robust statistics but found out very quick that R
(used huber, hubers and huberM) and SPSS (huber m-estimator) calculate
different location estimates, given the same tuning constant k. since
the differences a really not very small, i wanted to get some detailed
information about this but i couldn't find out which algorithm SPSS uses
to calculate hubers estimator so far...

does anyone know something about SPSS's huber function?

greetings,

manfred