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Excerpt from Contributions to Robust Estimation
The term robust in the title of this paper refers to the broad program for development of efficiency-robust estimators initiated by Tukey (1960, A general method for constructing optimally efficiency robust inference techniques was given by Birnbaum In the chapters that follow we study the properties of various estimators of location obtained by this method.
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