Asymptotics for the Tukey median

Abstract

The asymptotic distribution of the Tukey median has recently been obtained by Nolan in a bivariate setting and by Bai and He in the general multivariate case. To establish their theorem, these authors made a strong symmetry hypothesis on the distribution and, in the case of Bai and He, assumed the existence of a density function with a gradient satisfying a finite-moment condition. This paper extends the above result by deriving the asymptotic distribution of the above location estimate without making any symmetry or differentiability assumption on the distribution. © 2001 Elsevier Science (USA).