Compositional (version 1.2)

comp.knn: The k-NN algorithm for compositional data

Description

The k-NN algorithm for compositional data with and without using the power transformation.

Usage

comp.knn(xnew, x, ina, a = 1, k = 5, type = "S", apostasi = "ESOV", mesos = TRUE)

Arguments

xnew

A matrix with the new compositional data whose group is to be predicted. Zeros are allowed, but you must be carefull to choose strictly positive vcalues of $\alpha$ or not to set apostasi= "Ait".

x

A matrix with the available compositional data. Zeros are allowed, but you must be carefull to choose strictly positive vcalues of $\alpha$ or not to set apostasi= "Ait".

ina

A group indicator variable for the avaiable data.

a

The value of $\alpha$. As zero values in the compositional data are allowed, you must be carefull to choose strictly positive vcalues of $\alpha$.

k

The number of nearest neighbours to consider.

type

This can be either "S" for the standard k-NN or "NS" for the non standard (see details).

apostasi

The type of distance to use. "ESOV", "taxicab", "Ait", "Hellinger" or "angualar". See the references for them.

mesos

This is used in the non standard algorithm. If TRUE, the arithmetic mean of the distances is calulated, otherwise the harmonic mean is used (see details).

Value

• A vector with the estimated groups.

Details

The k-NN algorithm is applied for the compositional data. There are many metrics and possibilities to choose from. The standard algorithm finds the k nearest observations to a new observation and allocates it to the class which appears most times in the neighbours. The non standard algorithm is slower but perhaps more accurate. For every group is finds the k nearest neighbours to the new observation. It then computes the arithmetic or the harmonic mean of the distances. The new point is allocated to the class with the minimum distance.

References

Tsagris, Michail (2014). The k-NN algorithm for compositional data: a revised approach with and without zero values present. Journal of Data Science, 12(3): 519-534. Friedman Jerome, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani (2009). The elements of statistical learning, 2nd edition. Springer, Berlin Tsagris Michail, Simon Preston and Andrew TA Wood (2016). Improved classification for compositional data using the $\alpha$-transformation. Journal of classification (to appear). http://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.1451.pdf

See Also

compknn.tune, rda, alfa

Examples

x <- iris[, 1:4]
ina <- iris[, 5]
mod <- comp.knn(x, x, ina, a = 1, k = 5)
table(ina, mod)
mod2 <- comp.knn(x, x, ina, a = 0, k = 5)
table(ina, mod2)