“…For overcoming this problem, robust alternatives for these methods have been proposed in the literature, mainly by replacing the aforementioned empirical covariance operators by robust estimators. In this vein, robust versions of multivariate statistical methods have been introduced, especially for multiple regression ( [21]), principal components analysis ( [8], [10], [16], [22]), factor analysis ( [19]), linear discriminant analysis ( [6], [9], [14]), linear canonical analysis ( [5], [24]). Multiple-set linear canonical analysis (MSLCA) is an important multivariate statistical method that analyzes the relationship between more than two random vectors, so generalizing linear canonical analysis.…”