Identification of Multivariate Outliers: A Performance Study

Three methods for the identification of multivariate outliers (Rousseeuw and Van Zomeren, 1990; Becker and Gather, 1999; Filzmoser et al., 2005) are compared. They are based on the Mahalanobis distance that will be made resistant against outliers and model deviations by robust estimation of location...

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Main Author: Peter Filzmoser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Austrian Statistical Society 2016-04-01
Series:Austrian Journal of Statistics
Online Access:http://www.ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/406