It is well established that the standard measure of correlation (Pearson’s product-moment) is very sensitive to outliers. It can give extremely misleading results when a few or even a single outlier is present. A number of robust correlation measures have been proposed. We do not consider...

While multiple regression is widely used for the construction of models relating a single response variable to multiple explanatory variables (or inputs), satisfactory methods for modelling the relationship between multiple responses or outputs as well as inputs in a single equation are not...