Outlier detection for compositional data using robust methods

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-248

  Filzmoser, Peter ^a   Hron, Karel ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Logratio transformation; Mahalanobis distance; Multivariate outliers; Robust statistics; Ternary diagram

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTLIER;

EID: 41549117571     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-007-9141-5     Document Type: Article

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