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title: 'robscale: Accelerated Estimation of Robust Location and Scale'
version: 0.5.4
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18828607
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- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.robscale
abstract: Estimates robust location and scale parameters using platform-specific Single
  Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) vectorization and Intel Threading Building Blocks
  (TBB) for parallel processing. Implements a novel variance-weighted ensemble estimator
  that adaptively combines all available statistics. Methods include logistic M-estimators,
  the estimators of Rousseeuw and Croux (1993), the Gini mean difference, the scaled
  Median Absolute Deviation (MAD), the scaled Interquartile Range (IQR), and unbiased
  standard deviations. Achieves substantial speedups over existing implementations
  through an 'Rcpp' backend with fused single-buffer algorithms that halve memory
  traffic for MAD and M-scale estimation, and a unified dispatcher that automatically
  selects the optimal estimator based on sample size.
authors:
- family-names: Dittrich
  given-names: Dennis Alexis Valin
  email: davd@economicscience.net
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-8276
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'robscale: Accelerated Estimation of Robust Location and Scale'
  authors:
  - family-names: Dittrich
    given-names: Dennis Alexis Valin
    email: davd@economicscience.net
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-8276
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.5.4
  url: https://github.com/davdittrich/robscale
  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18828607
repository: https://davdittrich.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/davdittrich/robscale
commit: 3d10e75989785cb1a5bd845aebf9e11cade2f9de
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18828607
date-released: '2026-05-04'
contact:
- family-names: Dittrich
  given-names: Dennis Alexis Valin
  email: davd@economicscience.net
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-8276
references:
- type: article
  title: Robust estimation in very small samples
  authors:
  - family-names: Rousseeuw
    given-names: Peter J.
  - family-names: Verboven
    given-names: Sabine
  journal: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
  year: '2002'
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  end: '758'
- type: article
  title: Alternatives to the Median Absolute Deviation
  authors:
  - family-names: Rousseeuw
    given-names: Peter J.
  - family-names: Croux
    given-names: Christophe
  journal: Journal of the American Statistical Association
  year: '1993'
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  issue: '424'
  doi: 10.1080/01621459.1993.10476408
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- type: book
  title: Variabilita e mutabilita
  authors:
  - family-names: Gini
    given-names: Corrado
  year: '1912'
  publisher:
    name: Tipografia di Paolo Cuppini
    address: Bologna