simFrame (version 0.2)

DCARContControl-class: Class "DCARContControl"

Description

Class for controlling contamination in a simulation experiment. The values of the contaminated observations will be distributed completely at random (DCAR), i.e., they will not depend on on the original values.

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Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("DCARContControl", ...), DCARContControl(...) or ContControl(..., type="DCAR") (the latter exists mainly for back compatibility with early draft versions of simFrame).

Extends

Class "ContControl", directly. Class "VirtualContControl", by class "ContControl", distance 2. Class "OptContControl", by class "ContControl", distance 3.

Details

With this control class, contamination is modeled as a two-step process. The first step is to select observations to be contaminated, the second is to model the distribution of the outliers. In this case, the values of the contaminated observations will be generated by the function given by slot fun and will not depend on on the original values.

Methods

Methods are inherited from "ContControl".

UML class diagram

A slightly simplified UML class diagram of the framework can be found in Figure 1 of the package vignette An Object-Oriented Framework for Statistical Simulation: The RPackage simFrame. Use vignette("simFrame-intro") to view this vignette.

References

Béguin{Beguin}, C. and Hulliger, B. (2008) The BACON-EEM algorithm for multivariate outlier detection in incomplete survey data. Survey Methodology, 34(1), 91--103.

Hulliger, B. and Schoch, T. (2009) Robust multivariate imputation with survey data. 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Durban.

See Also

"DARContControl", "ContControl", "VirtualContControl", contaminate

Examples

data(eusilcP)
sam <- draw(eusilcP[, c("id", "eqIncome")], size = 20)
cc <- DCARContControl(target = "eqIncome", epsilon = 0.05, 
    dots = list(mean = 5e+05, sd = 10000))
contaminate(sam, cc)