Riani, Marco; Atkinson, Anthony C.; Cerioli, Andrea - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 71 (2009) 2, pp. 447-466
We use the forward search to provide robust Mahalanobis distances to detect the presence of outliers in a sample of multivariate normal data. Theoretical results on order statistics and on estimation in truncated samples provide the distribution of our test statistic. We also introduce several...