covRobust (version 1.1-3)

cov.nnve: Robust Covariance Estimation via Nearest Neighbor Cleaning

Description

The cov.nnve function for robust covariance estimation by the nearest neighbor variance estimation (NNVE) method of Wang and Raftery (2002, JASA).

Usage

cov.nnve(datamat, k = 12, pnoise = 0.05, emconv = 0.001, bound = 1.5, 
         extension = TRUE, devsm = 0.01)

Arguments

datamat

matrix in which each row represents an observation or point and each column represents a variable

k

desired number of nearest neighbors (default is 12)

pnoise

percent of added noise

emconv

convergence tolerance for EM

bound

value used to identify surges in variance caused by outliers wrongly included as signal points (bound = 1.5 means a 50 percent increase)

extension

whether or not to continue after reaching the last chi-square distance. The default is to continue, which is indicated by setting extension = TRUE.

devsm

when extension = TRUE, the algorithm stops if the relative difference in variance is less than devsm. (default is 0.01)

Value

A list with the following components:

cov

covariance matrix

mu

mean vector

postprob

posterior probability

classification

classification (0=noise otherwise 1) obtained by rounding postprob

innc

list of initial nearest neighbor cleaning results (components are the covariance, mean, posterior probability and classification)

References

Wang and Raftery (2002),Nearest neighbor variance estimation (NNVE): Robust covariance estimation via nearest neighbor cleaning (with discussion), Journal of the American Statistical Association 97:994-1019

see also University of Washington Statistics Technical Report 368 (2000) http://www.stat.washington.edu/www/research/reports

Examples

data(iris)
cov.nnve(iris[-5])