Winsimp {modi}

Winsorization followed by imputation

Description

Winsorization of outliers according to the Mahalanobis distance followed by an imputation under the multivariate normal model. Only the outliers are winsorized. The Mahalanobis distance MDmiss allows for missing values.

Usage

Winsimp(data, center, scatter, outind, seed = 1000003)

Arguments

data

a data frame with the data.

center

(robust) estimate of the center (location) of the observations.

scatter

(robust) estimate of the scatter (covariance-matrix) of the observations.

outind

logical vector indicating outliers with 1 or TRUE for outliers.

seed

seed for random number generator.

Details

It is assumed that center, scatter and outind stem from a multivariate outlier detection algorithm which produces robust estimates and which declares outliers observations with a large Mahalanobis distance. The cutpoint is calculated as the least (unsquared) Mahalanobis distance among the outliers. The winsorization reduces the weight of the outliers:

\hat{y}_i = \mu_R + (y_i - \mu_R) \cdot c/d_i

where \mu_R is the robust center and d_i is the (unsquared) Mahalanobis distance of observation i.

Value

Winsimp returns a list whose first component output is a sublist with the following components:

cutpoint

Cutpoint for outliers

proc.time

Processing time

n.missing.before

Number of missing values before imputation

n.missing.after

Number of missing values after imputation

The further component returned by winsimp is:

imputed.data

Imputed data set

Author(s)

Beat Hulliger

References

Hulliger, B. (2007), Multivariate Outlier Detection and Treatment in Business Surveys, Proceedings of the III International Conference on Establishment Surveys, Montréal.

See Also

MDmiss. Uses imp.norm.

Examples

data(bushfirem, bushfire.weights)
det.res <- TRC(bushfirem, weight = bushfire.weights)
imp.res <- Winsimp(bushfirem, det.res$center, det.res$scatter, det.res$outind)
print(imp.res$n.missing.after)