Breakdown Point Natural & Formal Sciences Dictionary Definition The smallest fraction (or proportion) of contamination in the data that can cause an estimator or statistical procedure to produce arbitrarily large, meaningless, or otherwise completely misleading results; a global robustness metric.
Breakdown Point Natural & Formal Sciences Dictionary Definition The smallest fraction (or proportion) of contamination in the data that can cause an estimator or statistical procedure to produce arbitrarily large, meaningless, or otherwise completely misleading results; a global robustness metric.