Generalized Radius Processes for Elliptically Contoured Distributions
椭圆分布的广义半径过程
The use of Mahalanobis distances has a long history in statistics. Given a sample of size n and general location and scatter estimators, mn and Σn, we can define “generalized” radii as . If we wish to trim observations based on the estimators mn and Σn, then it is natural to first remove the most remote ones (i.e., those with the largest 's). With this in mind, we define a process that maps the trimming proportion, α in (0, 1], to the generalized radius of the observation…