Exploring outliers in compositional data with structural zeros

Hron, Karel; Templ, Matthias; Filzmoser, Peter

Publication type:	Conference other
Type of review:	Not specified
Title:	Exploring outliers in compositional data with structural zeros
Authors:	Hron, Karel Templ, Matthias Filzmoser, Peter
Conference details:	9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Seville, Spain, 9-11 December 2016
Issue Date:	2016
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	500: Natural sciences
Abstract:	The analysis of multivariate observations carrying relative information (aka compositional data) using the log-ratio approach is based on ratios between variables (compositional parts). Zeros in the parts thus cause serious difficulties for the analysis. This is a particular problem in presence of structural zeros, resulting from a structural process rather than from imprecision of a measurement device. Therefore, they cannot be simply replaced by a non-zero value as it is done, e.g. for values below detection limit or missing values. Instead, zeros have to be incorporated into further statistical processing. We lay the focus on exploratory tools for identifying outliers in compositional data sets with structural zeros. For this purpose, robust Mahalanobis distances are estimated; computed either directly for subcompositions determined by their zero patterns or by using imputation to improve the efficiency of the estimates. We proceed to the subcompositional and subgroup level. For this approach, new theory is formulated that allows to estimate covariances for imputed compositional data and to apply estimations on subgroups using parts of this covariance matrix. Moreover, the zero pattern structure is analyzed using PCA for binary data to achieve a comprehensive view of the overall multivariate structure of zeros. The proposed tools are applied to large-scale data from official statistics, where the need for an appropriate treatment of zeros is obvious.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/5984
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Data Analysis and Process Design (IDP)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Engineering

Files in This Item:

There are no files associated with this item.

Show full item record

Hron, K., Templ, M., & Filzmoser, P. (2016). Exploring outliers in compositional data with structural zeros. 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Seville, Spain, 9-11 December 2016.

Hron, K., Templ, M. and Filzmoser, P. (2016) ‘Exploring outliers in compositional data with structural zeros’, in 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Seville, Spain, 9-11 December 2016.

K. Hron, M. Templ, and P. Filzmoser, “Exploring outliers in compositional data with structural zeros,” in 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Seville, Spain, 9-11 December 2016, 2016.

HRON, Karel, Matthias TEMPL und Peter FILZMOSER, 2016. Exploring outliers in compositional data with structural zeros. In: 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Seville, Spain, 9-11 December 2016. Conference presentation. 2016

Hron, Karel, Matthias Templ, and Peter Filzmoser. 2016. “Exploring Outliers in Compositional Data with Structural Zeros.” Conference presentation. In 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Seville, Spain, 9-11 December 2016.

Hron, Karel, et al. “Exploring Outliers in Compositional Data with Structural Zeros.” 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Seville, Spain, 9-11 December 2016, 2016.