MASS (version 7.3-39)

cov.trob: Covariance Estimation for Multivariate t Distribution

Description

Estimates a covariance or correlation matrix assuming the data came from a multivariate t distribution: this provides some degree of robustness to outlier without giving a high breakdown point.

Usage

cov.trob(x, wt = rep(1, n), cor = FALSE, center = TRUE, nu = 5,
         maxit = 25, tol = 0.01)

Arguments

x
data matrix. Missing values (NAs) are not allowed.
wt
A vector of weights for each case: these are treated as if the case i actually occurred wt[i] times.
cor
Flag to choose between returning the correlation (cor = TRUE) or covariance (cor = FALSE) matrix.
center
a logical value or a numeric vector providing the location about which the covariance is to be taken. If center = FALSE, no centering is done; if center = TRUE the MLE of the location vector is used.
nu
degrees of freedom for the multivariate t distribution. Must exceed 2 (so that the covariance matrix is finite).
maxit
Maximum number of iterations in fitting.
tol
Convergence tolerance for fitting.

Value

  • A list with the following components
  • covthe fitted covariance matrix.
  • centerthe estimated or specified location vector.
  • wtthe specified weights: only returned if the wt argument was given.
  • n.obsthe number of cases used in the fitting.
  • corthe fitted correlation matrix: only returned if cor = TRUE.
  • callThe matched call.
  • iterThe number of iterations used.

References

J. T. Kent, D. E. Tyler and Y. Vardi (1994) A curious likelihood identity for the multivariate t-distribution. Communications in Statistics---Simulation and Computation 23, 441--453.

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third Edition. Springer.

See Also

cov, cov.wt, cov.mve

Examples

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cov.trob(stackloss)

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