Using an adaptive measure of spread throughout. The scale factor reported for a bandwidth can appear to be small when the standard deviation is inflated due to the presence of outliers. Furthermore, supplying a scale factor of, say, 1.06 for density estimation when there are outliers that inflate the standard deviation may oversmooth rather dramatically in the presence of outliers. We now use the measure found in Silverman (1986, equation (3.30)) which is min(standard deviation, interquartile range/1.349). This robust choice produces expected results in the presence of outliers.