Richard D. De Veaux

Publication List Details

Period

1986 - 2005

Number

4

Co-Authors

How to Lie with Bad Data (2005)

De Veaux, Richard D., Hand, David J.

As Huff’s landmark book made clear, lying with statistics can be accomplished in many ways. Distorting graphics, manipulating data or using biased samples are just a few of the tried and true...

Robust estimation of a normal mixture

De Veaux, Richard D., Krieger, Abba M.

A robust procedure for estimating the five parameters of a mixture of two normals is proposed. The procedure is based on a robustification of the steps of the EM algorithm. This results in the use of...