The Huber score clips a residual at a fixed threshold:For , the Huber score is the derivative of the Huber loss:It is a continuous odd function and a monotone function, with Lipschitz continuity and . In a Huber location estimator, its argument is the standardized difference . Its derivative is inside the clipping interval and outside; that derivative is undefined at the two endpoints. The score itself remains continuous there. This estimating score need not be the score function of a separately specified statistical model, nor is it already a normalized influence function.
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