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This paper is from Session 3B: Teaching robust methods

which comes under Topic 3: Statistics education at the post-secondary level             Full topic list

(Monday 3rd, 14:00-15:30)

The historical development of robust statistics

Presenter

• Elvezio Ronchetti (Switzerland)

Abstract

We focus on the historical development of robust statistics by highlighting its contributions to the general development of statistical theory and applications. The basic robustness concepts and tools should be included in a natural way both in undergraduate and graduate statistics and econometrics curricula. We argue that this is more effective than treating robust statistics as a special (advanced) topic and we illustrate this point by means of an example drawn from economics and finance.