Publisher's Synopsis
This book contains the invited papers presented at the First International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis based on the L 1 -Norm and Related Methods, held in Neuchatel (Switzerland) from August 31 to September 4, 1987. Recent results obtained in statistical data analysis, using the criterion of the least absolute value, are examined, and should be of interest to statisticians, economists, operations researchers, physicians, chemists, astronomers, management scientists and industrial engineers.