Hi, I think he's talking about how much a statistical estimator is influenced by extreme datapoints, e.g.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_statistics#Breakdown_point Olivier -- Olivier Crouzet Assistant Professor @LLING UMR6310 - Université de Nantes / CNRS Guest Scientist @UMCG - University Medical Center Groningen / RijksUniversiteit Groningen > Le 19 avr. 2018 à 11:00, Keith Jewell <keith.jew...@campdenbri.co.uk> a écrit > : > >> On 15/04/2018 17:26, Marc Girondot via R-help wrote: >>> Le 15/04/2018 à 17:56, alireza daneshvar a écrit : >>> break-down point >> Can you explain more what you plan to do and give an example of what you >> have tried to do until now to do a "break down point" in R. Perhaps a "break >> down point" is common in your field, but I have no idea about what it is ! >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakdown_(1997_film) >> Sincerely >> Marc > Perhaps the OP means "breakpoint" in which case the 'strucchange' package > might be relevant > <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/strucchange/index.html> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
