In the estimation of a location parameter the Hodges-Lehmann estimator is known to have some "robust" properties, but it is very "expensive" for large sample sizes. By using the linearity of a special rank statistic we can find a linearized version which requires only O(n log n) operations.
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André Antille (1974) studied this question.
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