Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L B1 S-norm and Related Methods

This volume contains a selection of invited papers, presented to the fourth International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods, held in NeuchA[tel, Switzerland, from August 4a "9, 2002. The contributions represent a clear evidence to the importance of development of theory, methods and applications related to the statistical data analysis based on the L1-norm.

The purpose of this work is to provide a new definition for mul- tivariate M-
quantiles. We illustrate by a series of examples, that our new definition of
multivariate M-quantiles satisfies a number of useful practical requirements in a
wide variety of ...