Solution

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For , and . Taking of order in part d gives
For Gaussian data under Huber contamination, the Tukey median has the sharper dependence
up to universal constants in its valid contamination range. Both have the same sampling term , but the Tukey median is linear rather than square-root in the contamination fraction.

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