>The moral is that robust methods should be taken as just one more set of
>exploratory tools, part of a broader analysis. However, I've seen lots of
>examples where people have blindly dropped data into a robust procedure,
>and talken the result without further analysis (under the assumption
>that all they've lost is some power). This is likely to become more
>common, especially in areas of engineering and finance where there is
>motivation to have computers build quite complex models in real time
>with little or no human intervention. Heck, I'm often tempted to do
>something similar myself.
Eric Mott
Tektronix, Inc.
Operations Engineering
eric.mott@tek.com