chemometrics (version 1.4.1)

Moutlier: Plots classical and robust Mahalanobis distances

Description

For multivariate outlier detection the Mahalanobis distance can be used. Here a plot of the classical and the robust (based on the MCD) Mahalanobis distance is drawn.

Usage

Moutlier(X, quantile = 0.975, plot = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

X

numeric data frame or matrix

quantile

cut-off value (quantile) for the Mahalanobis distance

plot

if TRUE a plot is generated

...

additional graphics parameters, see par

Value

...

Details

For multivariate normally distributed data, a fraction of 1-quantile of data can be declared as potential multivariate outliers. These would be identified with the Mahalanobis distance based on classical mean and covariance. For deviations from multivariate normality center and covariance have to be estimated in a robust way, e.g. by the MCD estimator. The resulting robust Mahalanobis distance is suitable for outlier detection. Two plots are generated, showing classical and robust Mahalanobis distance versus the observation numbers.

References

K. Varmuza and P. Filzmoser: Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Chemometrics. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2009.

See Also

covMcd

Examples

data(glass)
data(glass.grp)
x=glass[,c(2,7)]
require(robustbase)
res <- Moutlier(glass,quantile=0.975,pch=glass.grp)