robust: Port of the S+ “Robust Library”

This package contains the Robust Library version 0.4

• Contributors:
  • Jeff Wang jwang@statsci.com
  • Ruben Zamar ruben@stat.ubc.ca
  • Alfio Marazzi Alfio.Marazzi@inst.hospvd.ch
  • Victor Yohai vyohai@dm.uba.ar
  • Matias Salibian-Barrera matias@stat.ubc.ca
  • Ricardo Maronna maron@mate.unlp.edu.ar
  • Eric Zivot ezivot@u.washington.edu
  • David Rocke dmrocke@ucdavis.edu
  • Doug Martin doug@statsci.com
  • Kjell Konis kjell.konis@icloud.com

• This package contains the following robust methods:
  • Robust Covariance estimation (scatter and location)
  • Robust Linear Regression
  • Robust Generalized Linear Models
  • Robust Gamma, Weibull, and lognormal parameter estimation
• A method for side-by-side comparison of robust and classical models is also provided. Please see Robust.pdf for further details.

Installation

The robust package is on CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) and the latest release can be easily installed using the command

install.packages("robust")

Building from source

To install the latest stable development version from GitHub, you can pull this repository and install it using

## install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("valentint/robust")

Of course, if you have already installed remotes, you can skip the first line (I have commented it out).

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Contribute to the package

If you want to contribute to the package, you can fork this repository and create a pull request after implementing the desired functionality.

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