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  1. robscale 0.5.3 is now on CRAN: A major update since the last public release (0.2.1).

    New: 11 robust estimators with confidence intervals, plus a variance-weighted ensemble combining seven scale statistics via bootstrap. Newton–Raphson replaces scoring iteration (2–4 steps vs 6–8), a fused AVX2 kernel does NR accumulation in one data pass, and all input validation runs in C++ with zero R-side allocation.

    Speedups vs existing implementations:

    Small samples (n ≤ 20):
    • robScale/robLoc: 4–5× vs revss 3.1.0
    • Qn: 6× vs robustbase
    • MAD: 21–26× vs stats::mad
    • IQR: 37× vs stats::IQR

    Mid-to-large samples (n ≥ 1000):
    • robScale: 2–4× vs revss
    • Sn: 7–9× vs robustbase
    • MAD: 5–8× vs stats::mad
    • IQR: 5–7× vs stats::IQR
    • GMD: 2–8× vs GiniDistance

    cran.r-project.org/package=rob
    github.com/davdittrich/robscale

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