mvoutlier (version 2.1.1)

symbol.plot: Symbol Plot

Description

The function symbol.plot plots the (two-dimensional) data using different symbols according to the robust mahalanobis distance based on the mcd estimator with adjustment.

Usage

symbol.plot(x, quan=1/2, alpha=0.025, ...)

Arguments

x

two dimensional matrix or data.frame containing the data.

quan

amount of observations which are used for mcd estimations. has to be between 0.5 and 1, default ist 0.5

alpha

amount of observations used for calculating the adjusted quantile (see function arw).

...

additional graphical parameters

Value

outliers

boolean vector of outliers

md

robust mahalanobis distances of the data

Details

The function symbol.plot plots the (two-dimensional) data using different symbols. In addition a legend and four ellipsoids are drawn, on which mahalanobis distances are constant. As the legend shows, these constant values correspond to the 25%, 50%, 75% and adjusted (see function arw) quantiles of the chi-square distribution.

References

P. Filzmoser, R.G. Garrett, and C. Reimann. Multivariate outlier detection in exploration geochemistry. Computers & Geosciences, 31:579-587, 2005.

See Also

dd.plot, color.plot, arw

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# create data:
x <- cbind(rnorm(100), rnorm(100))
y <- cbind(rnorm(10, 5, 1), rnorm(10, 5, 1))
z <- rbind(x,y)
# execute:
symbol.plot(z, quan=0.75)
# }