Elfadaly, Fadlalla G.Garthwaite, Paul H.Crawford, John R.2016-07-252016-07-252016-07Elfadaly, F G, Garthwaite, P H & Crawford, J R 2016, 'On point estimation of the abnormality of a Mahalanobis index', Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, vol. 99, pp. 115-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2016.01.0140167-9473http://hdl.handle.net/2164/6249Acknowledgment The work reported here was funded by a grant from the Medical Research Council, UK, grant number: MR/J013838/1.16711146engBernstein polynomialsMahalanobis distanceMedian estimatorPlug-in maximum likelihoodQuadrature approximatinUnbiased estimationR MedicineBF PsychologyHA StatisticsMedical Research Council (MRC)MR/J013838/1RBFHAJournal article10.1016/j.csda.2016.01.01499