

\subsection{\bf Robust Estimation---Motivation---III}

\begin{slide}
\begin{itemize}
\item There is thus a great deal of interest in the study of so called
{\em robust\/} techniques which are insensitive to errors in our
knowledge about the underlying distribution.

\item Statisticians are very interested in such techniques but (apart
from non-parametric methods we have already discussed) there has been
little use/experience of them in the type of hard problems that
physicists are want to find.

\item Further, the derivation of robust methods is rather intuitive and
not as mathematically precise as those of classical statistics.
\end{itemize}
\end{slide}

