Peter J Huber
Biographic Data
| ID | 2023053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter J Huber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter J |
| FAMILY NAME | Huber |
| SIGNATURE | HUBER P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Institute of Mental Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Astronomical Basis of Egyptian Chronology of the Second Millennium BC
Egyptian dates are widely used for fixing the chronologies of surrounding countries in the Ancient Near East. But the astronomical basis of Egyptian chronology is shakier than generally assumed. The moon dates of the Middle and New Kingdom are here re-examined with the help of experiences gained from Babylonian astronomical observations. The astronomical basis of the chronology of the New Kingdom is at best ambiguous. The conventional date of Thu…
On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Grammar
The Solar Omen of Muršili II
The fragmentary text KUB 14.4, a prayer of the Hittite king Mursili II, is reexamined with regard to chronological implications. The king recounts various misdeeds of the old queen, his stepmother. In particular, he tells how she tried to leverage a solar omen into an attempt to demote him. From the reconstructed sequence of events and actions of the queen and the king, I argue that this omen-presumably a noticeable, but not necessarily a total, …
Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination
Robust Statistics
Shape-invariant modelling of human growth
A new approach to modelling human height growth is presented which is also suitable for other variables. In a mathematical algorithm, some guess about the functional form of this growth process is improved consistently using the data; the resulting shape-invariant model (SIM) allows an approximately bias-free fitting for longitudinal data from 1 to 20 years with six parameters assigned to each individual. The SIM approach and the use of velocitie…
Analysis of the adolescent growth spurt using smoothing spline functions
Height growth velocity curves between 4.5 and 17.75 years were estimated, using smoothing spline functions, for 112 boys and 110 girls from the Zurich Longitudinal Study (1955--1976). Parameters characterizing the growth process, such as peak height velocity and age at peak height velocity, were calculated directly from the estimated curves. The variability of parameters describing the adolescent growth spurt is large, both between and within sex…
Linguistik und Statistik . S. Jäger
Robust Regression
Maximum likelihood type robust estimates of regression are defined and their asymptotic properties are investigated both theoretically and empirically. Perhaps the most important new feature is that the number $p$ of parameters is allowed to increase with the number $n$ of observations. The initial terms of a formal power series expansion (essentially in powers of $p/n$) show an excellent agreement with Monte Carlo results, in most cases down to …
Robust Estimation of a Location Parameter
This paper contains a new approach toward a theory of robust estimation; it treats in detail the asymptotic theory of estimating a location parameter for contaminated normal distributions, and exhibits estimators--intermediaries between sample mean and sample median--that are asymptotically most robust (in a sense to be specified) among all translation invariant estimators. For the general background, see Tukey (1960) (p. 448 ff.) Let $x_1, \cdot…
The Astronomical Basis of Egyptian Chronology of the Second Millennium BC
Egyptian dates are widely used for fixing the chronologies of surrounding countries in the Ancient Near East. But the astronomical basis of Egyptian chronology is shakier than generally assumed. The moon dates of the Middle and New Kingdom are here re-examined with the help of experiences gained from Babylonian astronomical observations. The astronomical basis of the chronology of the New Kingdom is at best ambiguous. The conventional date of Thu…
Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination
Robust Estimation of a Location Parameter
This paper contains a new approach toward a theory of robust estimation; it treats in detail the asymptotic theory of estimating a location parameter for contaminated normal distributions, and exhibits estimators--intermediaries between sample mean and sample median--that are asymptotically most robust (in a sense to be specified) among all translation invariant estimators. For the general background, see Tukey (1960) (p. 448 ff.) Let $x_1, \cdot…
Robust Regression
Maximum likelihood type robust estimates of regression are defined and their asymptotic properties are investigated both theoretically and empirically. Perhaps the most important new feature is that the number $p$ of parameters is allowed to increase with the number $n$ of observations. The initial terms of a formal power series expansion (essentially in powers of $p/n$) show an excellent agreement with Monte Carlo results, in most cases down to …
Linguistik und Statistik . S. Jäger
Analysis of the adolescent growth spurt using smoothing spline functions
Height growth velocity curves between 4.5 and 17.75 years were estimated, using smoothing spline functions, for 112 boys and 110 girls from the Zurich Longitudinal Study (1955--1976). Parameters characterizing the growth process, such as peak height velocity and age at peak height velocity, were calculated directly from the estimated curves. The variability of parameters describing the adolescent growth spurt is large, both between and within sex…
Shape-invariant modelling of human growth
A new approach to modelling human height growth is presented which is also suitable for other variables. In a mathematical algorithm, some guess about the functional form of this growth process is improved consistently using the data; the resulting shape-invariant model (SIM) allows an approximately bias-free fitting for longitudinal data from 1 to 20 years with six parameters assigned to each individual. The SIM approach and the use of velocitie…
Robust Statistics
The Solar Omen of Muršili II
The fragmentary text KUB 14.4, a prayer of the Hittite king Mursili II, is reexamined with regard to chronological implications. The king recounts various misdeeds of the old queen, his stepmother. In particular, he tells how she tried to leverage a solar omen into an attempt to demote him. From the reconstructed sequence of events and actions of the queen and the king, I argue that this omen-presumably a noticeable, but not necessarily a total, …
Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination
On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Grammar
The Astronomical Basis of Egyptian Chronology of the Second Millennium BC
Egyptian dates are widely used for fixing the chronologies of surrounding countries in the Ancient Near East. But the astronomical basis of Egyptian chronology is shakier than generally assumed. The moon dates of the Middle and New Kingdom are here re-examined with the help of experiences gained from Babylonian astronomical observations. The astronomical basis of the chronology of the New Kingdom is at best ambiguous. The conventional date of Thu…
Mathematics (5 works) · Statistics (4 works) · Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Ancient Near East History (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (2 works)