Gib Bassett : On recursively generated distribution functions

Posted by Ryan Martin , part of the Graduate Statistics Seminar.

At

Feb. 25, 2014, 3:30 p.m.

In

SEO 636

Abstract

In this talk, I will discuss some open problems concerning the recursively generated distribution functions. Questions include the following: for a given distribution function, what recursively generated sequence has limit close (or equal) to the given one?, and, for a given class of recursive sequences, what kind of limit distributions are possible? A good introduction to the problem can be found in Sections 5 and 6 of the paper: Rousseeuw and Bassett, "The Remedian: A Robust Averaging Method for Large Data Sets," <i>Journal of the American Statistical Association</i>, 1990.