Explore research at Microsoft, a site featuring the impact of research along with publications, products, downloads, and research careers. Introduction. Robust statistics seek to provide methods that emulate popular statistical methods, but which are not unduly affected by outliers or other small. Brad Calder, Ju Wang, Aaron Ogus, Niranjan Nilakantan, Arild Skjolsvold, Sam McKelvie, Yikang Xu, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Huseyin Simitci, Jaidev.