Robust centroid method

  • Authors:
  • V. Choulakian;J. Allard;J. Almhana

  • Affiliations:
  • Dépt. de math/statistique, Université de Moncton, Canada;Dépt. de math/statistique, Université de Moncton, Canada;Dépt. de math/statistique, Université de Moncton, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper describes a robust centroid method, which is a variant of principal component analysis. A genetic local search algorithm is presented to perform the calculations. Simulations are carried out to appraise the performance of the genetic local search algorithm. A real data set with missing data and multiple outliers is analyzed.