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The aim of this paper is to define and investigate outlier-proneness for multivariate distributions. This is done by using a concept of ordering multivariate data based on isobar-surfaces, which yields an analogy of the results to the univariate case.
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Barme-Delcroix, MF., Gather, U. An Isobar-Surfaces Approach to Multidimensional Outlier-Proneness. Extremes 5, 131–144 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022167104220
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