mvoutlier (version 2.0.9)

locoutPercent: Diagnostic plot for identifying local outliers with fixed size of neighborhood

Description

Computes global and pairwise Mahalanobis distances for visualizing global and local multivariate outliers. The size of the neighborhood (number of neighbors) is fixed, but the fraction of neighbors is varying.

Usage

locoutPercent(dat, X, Y, dist = NULL, k = 10, chisqqu = 0.975, sortup = 10, sortlow = 90, 
  nlinesup = 10, nlineslow = 10, indices = NULL, xlab = "(Sorted) Index", 
  ylab = "Distance to neighbor", col = gray(0.7), ...)

Arguments

dat

multivariate data set (without coordinates)

X

X coordinates of the data points

Y

Y coordinates of the data points

dist

maximum distance to search for neighbors; if nothing is provided, k for kNN is used

k

number of nearest neighbors to search - not taken if a value for dist is provided

chisqqu

quantile of the chisquare distribution for splitting the plot

sortup

sort local outliers accorting to given percentage

sortlow

sort local inliers accorting to given percentage

nlinesup

number of lines to be plotted for upper part

nlineslow

number of lines to be plotted for lower part

indices

if this is not NULL, these should be indices of observations to be highlighted

xlab

x-axis label for plot

ylab

y-axis label for plot

col

color for lines

additional parameters for plotting

Value

ret

list containing indices of regular and outlying observations

Details

For this diagnostic tool, the number of neighbors is fixed, but propneighb (called beta) is varied. For each observation we compute the degree of isolation from a fraction of 1-beta of its neighbors. Neighborhood can be defined either via the Euclidean distance or by k-Nearest-Neighbors. The critical value for outliers is the quantile chisqqu of the chisquare distribution. One can also provide indices of observations (for indices). Then the corresponding lines in the plots will be highlighted.

References

P. Filzmoser, A. Ruiz-Gazen, and C. Thomas-Agnan: Identification of local multivariate outliers. Submitted for publication, 2012.

See Also

locoutNeighbor, locoutSort

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
# use data from illustrative example in paper:
data(X)
data(Y)
data(dat)
res <- locoutPercent(dat,X,Y,k=10,chisqqu=0.975, indices=c(1,11,24,36))
# }

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