A Robust Journey in the New Millennium
A brief search through Current Index to Statistics found more than 3,000 entries with "robust" or "robustness" as key words. That this number exceeded the number of appearances for "density," "rank," "bootstrap," "censored," or "smoothing" suggests that the name of this field might also be an appropriate appellation for those doing the research. Here we present a very personal view of a few of the most fundamental insights offered by the study of robustness and suggest some promising areas for future robust travel.