ICS_mlc {ICSClust}

Cauchy location and Scatter Estimates for ICS

Description

It is a wrapper for the Cauchy estimator of location and scatter for a multivariate t-distribution, as computed by ICS::tM().

Usage

ICS_mlc(x, location = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

a numeric matrix or data frame.

location

a logical indicating whether to include the M-estimate of location (defaults to FALSE).

...

potential further arguments passed to ICS::ICS_tM().

Value

An object of class "ICS_scatter" with the following components:

location

if requested, a numeric vector giving the location estimate.

scatter

a numeric matrix giving the estimate of the scatter matrix.

label

a character string providing a label for the scatter matrix.

Author(s)

Andreas Alfons and Aurore Archimbaud

See Also

ICS::tM(), ICS::ICS_tM()