Clarke, Brenton; McKinnon, Peter; Riley, Geoff - In: Statistical Papers 53 (2012) 4, pp. 1001-1014
The art of fitting gamma distributions robustly is described. In particular we compare methods of fitting via minimizing a Cramér Von Mises distance, an L <Subscript>2</Subscript> minimum distance estimator, and fitting a B-optimal M-estimator. After a brief prelude on robust estimation explaining the merits in terms...</subscript>