## Robust scale estimators for fuzzy data.(English)Zbl 1414.62104

Summary: Observations distant from the majority or deviating from the general pattern often appear in datasets. Classical estimates such as the sample mean or the sample variance can be substantially affected by these observations (outliers). Even a single outlier can have huge distorting influence. However, when one deals with real-valued data there exist robust measures/estimates of location and scale (dispersion) which reduce the influence of these atypical values and provide approximately the same results as the classical estimates applied to the typical data without outliers. In real-life, data to be analyzed and interpreted are not always precisely defined and they cannot be properly expressed by using a numerical scale of measurement. Frequently, some of these imprecise data could be suitably described and modelled by considering a fuzzy rating scale of measurement. In this paper, several well-known scale (dispersion) estimators in the real-valued case are extended for random fuzzy numbers (i.e., random mechanisms generating fuzzy-valued data), and some of their properties as estimators for dispersion are examined. Furthermore, their robust behaviour is analyzed using two powerful tools, namely, the finite sample breakdown point and the sensitivity curves. Simulations, including empirical bias curves, are performed to complete the study.

### MSC:

 62F35 Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) 62A86 Fuzzy analysis in statistics

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