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Abstract This article reviews some of the history of robust estimation, emphasizing the period 1885–1920 and the work of Newcomb, Edgeworth, Sheppard, and Daniell. Particular attention is paid to lines of development which have excited recent interest, including linear functions of order statistics and mixtures of normal densities as models for heavy-tailed populations.
Stephen M. Stigler (Sat,) studied this question.