medpolish
Median Polish of a Matrix
Fits an additive model using Tukey's median polish procedure.
- Keywords
- robust
Usage
medpolish(x, eps = 0.01, maxiter = 10, trace.iter = TRUE, na.rm = FALSE)Arguments
- x
- a numeric matrix.
- eps
- real number greater than 0. A tolerance for convergence: see ‘Details’.
- maxiter
- the maximum number of iterations
- trace.iter
- logical. Should progress in convergence be reported?
- na.rm
- logical. Should missing values be removed?
Details
The model fitted is additive (constant + rows + columns). The
algorithm works by alternately removing the row and column medians,
and continues until the proportional reduction in the sum
of absolute residuals is less than eps
or until there have been maxiter iterations.
The sum of absolute residuals is printed at
each iteration of the fitting process, if trace.iter is TRUE.
If na.rm is FALSE the presence of any NA value in
x will cause an error, otherwise NA values are ignored.
medpolish returns an object of class medpolish (see below).
There are printing and plotting methods for this
class, which are invoked via by the generics
print and plot.
Value
-
An object of class
- overall
- the fitted constant term.
- row
- the fitted row effects.
- col
- the fitted column effects.
- residuals
- the residuals.
- name
- the name of the dataset.
medpolish with the following named components:
References
Tukey, J. W. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis, Reading Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley.
See Also
Examples
library(stats)
require(graphics)
## Deaths from sport parachuting; from ABC of EDA, p.224:
deaths <-
rbind(c(14,15,14),
c( 7, 4, 7),
c( 8, 2,10),
c(15, 9,10),
c( 0, 2, 0))
dimnames(deaths) <- list(c("1-24", "25-74", "75-199", "200++", "NA"),
paste(1973:1975))
deaths
(med.d <- medpolish(deaths))
plot(med.d)
## Check decomposition:
all(deaths ==
med.d$overall + outer(med.d$row,med.d$col, "+") + med.d$residuals)