caa a22 4500 475737385 CHVBK 20180406123450.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s001900050287 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s001900050287 Saleh J. Department of Surveying & Land Information, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago e-mail: jarirs@hotmail.com; Tel.: +868 662 2002 ext. 3311; Fax: +1 868 662 4414 aut Robust estimation based on energy minimization principles [Elektronische Daten] [J. Saleh] Abstract.:  It is argued that the tendency of nature to minimize energy may be used as a unifying basis for all robust estimators. Robustness is defined and discussed based on mechanical rather than empirical and abstract tools. This mechanical view of robustness is then extended to design new and useful robust data editors that suppress the outlying content of the contaminated observations. These editors are applied to edit samples of sea-surface heights, gravity observations and reduced global positioning system baselines. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words: Least-energy (robust) estimation nationallicence https://doi.org/10.1007/s001900050287 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s001900050287 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Saleh J. Department of Surveying & Land Information, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago e-mail: jarirs@hotmail.com; Tel.: +868 662 2002 ext. 3311; Fax: +1 868 662 4414 aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer