This paper presents a new toolbox for robust control design and analysis.

served on my thesis committee, and I would also like to thank them for their contributions.

The problems of non-normality or functional relationships between variables may often be simplified by an appropriate transformation. However, the evidence for transformations may sometimes depend crucially on one or a few observations. Therefore, the purpose of the paper is to develop a method that will not be influenced by potential outliers during the process of data transformations. The con...

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