Gerstenberger, CarinaVogel, Daniel2015-03-192015-03-192015-11Gerstenberger, C & Vogel, D 2015, 'On the efficiency of Gini's mean difference', Statistical Methods & Applications, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 569-596. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-015-0315-x1618-2510ArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5027v1ORCID: /0000-0002-6360-4077/work/77724508http://hdl.handle.net/2164/433418 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables Acknowledgments We are indebted to Herold Dehling for introducing us to the theory of U-statistics, to Roland Fried for introducing us to robust statistics, and to Alexander Dürre, who has demonstrated the benefit of complex analysis for solving statistical problems. Both authors were supported in part by the Collaborative Research Centre 823 Statistical modelling of nonlinear dynamic processes.281435875engmath.STstat.TH62G35, 62G05, 62G20influence functionmean deviationmedian absolute deviationnormal mixture distributionresidue theoremrobustnessQA MathematicsQAJournal article10.1007/s10260-015-0315-xhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5027v1244