Outliers robustness in multivariate orthogonal regression

Deals with the problem of multivariate affine regression in the presence of outliers in the data. The method discussed is based on weighted orthogonal least squares. The weights associated with the data satisfy a suitable optimality criterion and are computed by a two-step algorithm requiring a RANSAC step and a gradient-based optimization step. Issues related to the breakdown point of the method are discussed, and examples of application on various real multidimensional data sets are reported in the paper.