"breakdown point" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: breakdown points [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} breakdown point (plural breakdown points)
  1. (statistics, of an estimator) The number or proportion of arbitrarily large or small extreme values that must be introduced into a batch or sample to cause the estimator to yield an arbitrarily large result. Categories (topical): Statistics
    Sense id: en-breakdown_point-en-noun-tXcqMT7t Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

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