rrcov (version 1.7-2)

bushmiss: Campbell Bushfire Data with added missing data items

Description

This data set is based on the bushfire data set which was used by Campbell (1984) to locate bushfire scars - see bushfire in package robustbase. The original dataset contains satelite measurements on five frequency bands, corresponding to each of 38 pixels.

Usage

data(bushmiss)

Format

A data frame with 190 observations on 6 variables.

The original data set consists of 38 observations in 5 variables. Based on it four new data sets are created in which some of the data items are replaced by missing values with a simple "missing completely at random " mechanism. For this purpose independent Bernoulli trials are realized for each data item with a probability of success 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, where success means that the corresponding item is set to missing. The obtained five data sets, including the original one (each with probability of a data item to be missing equal to 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 which is reflected in the new variable MPROB) are merged. (See also Beguin and Hulliger (2004).)

Examples

## The following code will result in exactly the same output
##  as the one obtained from the original data set
data(bushmiss)
bf <- bushmiss[bushmiss$MPROB==0,1:5]
plot(bf)
covMcd(bf)


if (FALSE) {
##  This is the code with which the missing data were created:
##
##  Creates a data set with missing values (for testing purposes)
##  from a complete data set 'x'. The probability of
##  each item being missing is 'pr' (Bernoulli trials).
##
getmiss <- function(x, pr=0.1)
{
    n <- nrow(x)
    p <- ncol(x)
    done <- FALSE
    iter <- 0
    while(iter <= 50){
        bt <- rbinom(n*p, 1, pr)
        btmat <- matrix(bt, nrow=n)
        btmiss <- ifelse(btmat==1, NA, 0)
        y <- x+btmiss
        if(length(which(rowSums(nanmap(y)) == p)) == 0)
            return (y)
        iter <- iter + 1
    }
    y
}
}