Social evaluation functions used in policy impact analysis can be viewed as real-valued functionals of the underlying outcome distributions. Influence functions may be used to identify the sources of variation in social outcomes in terms of individual or household characteristics. This paper...

It is well known that any statistic based on sample averages can be sensitive to outliers. Some examples are the conventional moments-based statistics such as the sample mean, the sample variance, or the sample covariance of a set of observations on two variables. Given that sample correlation...

It is well known that any statistic based on sample averages can be sensitive to outliers. Some examples are the conventional moments-based statistics such as the sample mean, the sample variance, or the sample covariance of a set of observations on two variables. Given that sample correlation...