asymmetryCurve: Asymmetry curve based on depths

Description

Produces an asymmetry curve estimated from given data.

Usage

asymmetryCurve(x, y = NULL, alpha = seq(0, 1, 0.01),
  method = "Projection", movingmedian = FALSE, name = "X", name_y = "Y",
  ...)

Arguments

The data as a matrix or data frame. If it is a matrix or data frame, then each row is viewed as one multivariate observation.

Additional matrix of multivariate data.

alpha

An ordered vector containing indices of central regins used for asymmetry curve calculation.

method

Character string which determines the depth function used. The method can be "Projection" (the default), "Mahalanobis", "Euclidean", "Tukey" or 'LP'. For details see depth.

movingmedian

Logical. For default FALSE only one depth median is used to compute asymmetry norm. If TRUE - for every central area, a new depth median will be used - this approach needs much more time.

name

Name of set X - used in plot legend

name_y

Name of set Y - used in plot legend

...

Any additional parameters for function depth

Details

For sample depth function \( D({x},{{{Z}}^{n}}) \) , \( {x}\in {{{R}}^{d}} \) , \( d\ge 2 \) , \( {Z}^{n}=\{{{{z}}_{1}},...,{{{z}}_{n}}\}\subset {{{R}}^{d}} \) , \( {{D}_{\alpha }}({{{Z}}^{n}}) \) denoting \( \alpha- \) central region, we can define the asymmetry curve \( AC(\alpha )=\left( \alpha ,\left\| {{c}^{-1}}(\{{\bar{z}}-med|{{D}_{\alpha }}({{{Z}}^{n}})\}) \right\| \right)\subset {{{R}}^{2}} \) , for \( \alpha \in [0,1] \) being nonparametric scale and asymmetry functional correspondingly, where \( c- \) denotes constant, \( {\bar{z}}- \) denotes mean vector, denotes multivariate median induced by depth function and \( vol- \) denotes a volume.

Asymmetrycurve takes uses function convhulln from package geometry for computing a volume of convex hull containing central region.

References

Serfling R. J. Multivariate Symmetry and Asymmetry, Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, S Kotz, C.B. Read, N. Balakrishnan, B. Vidakovic (eds), 2nd, ed., John Wiley.

Liu, R.Y., Parelius, J.M. and Singh, K. (1999), Multivariate analysis by data depth: Descriptive statistics, graphics and inference (with discussion), Ann. Statist., 27, 783--858.

Chaudhuri, P. (1996), On a Geometric Notion of Quantiles for Multivariate Data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 862--872.

Dyckerhoff, R. (2004), Data Depths Satisfying the Projection Property, Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv., 88, 163--190.

Examples

Run this code

#EXAMPLE 1
require(sn)
xi = c(0,0)
alpha <- c(2,-5)
Omega <- diag(2)*5

n = 500
X = mvrnorm(n, xi, Omega)  # normal distribution
Y = rmst(n, xi, Omega, alpha, nu=1)
asymmetryCurve(X,Y,name = "NORM",name_y = "S_T(2,-5,10)")


#EXAMPLE 2
data(under5.mort)
data(inf.mort)
data(maesles.imm)
data1990=cbind(under5.mort[,1],inf.mort[,1],maesles.imm[,1])
data2011=cbind(under5.mort[,22],inf.mort[,22],maesles.imm[,22])
as1990=asymmetryCurve(data1990,name='scale curve 1990')
as2011=asymmetryCurve(data2011,name='scale curve 2011')
figure=getPlot(as1990 %+% as2011)+ggtitle('Scale curves')
figure