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The coordinatewise median suffers a contamination error of order with constant probability. In contrast, the Tukey median under an isotropic Gaussian model satisfies a high-probability Euclidean error bound of order
with probability at least , up to universal constants. Its contamination term is dimension-free. Thus coordinatewise estimation loses a factor in its dependence on adversarial contamination.

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