Wind power has been the fastest growing form of renewable energy for the last few years. According to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, 80% of the world's energy supply could come from renewable sources by 2050 and wind energy will play a major role in electricity...

To overcome the main flaw of minimum covariance determinant (MCD) estimator, i.e. difficulty to determine its main parameter <italic>h</italic>, a modified-MCD (M-MCD) algorithm is proposed. In M-MCD, the self-adaptive iteration is proposed to minimize the deflection between the standard deviation of robust...