Robust estimation of the location of a vertical tangent in distribution
分布函数垂直切线位置的稳健估计
It is shown that the location of the set of $m + 1$ observations with minimal diameter, within local data, is a robust estimator of the location of a vertical tangent in a distribution function. The rate of consistency of these estimators is shown to be the same as that of asymptotically efficient estimators for the same model. Robustness means (1) only properties of the distribution local to the vertical tangent play a role in the asymptotics, and (2) these asymptotics can…