Spatially smoothed robust covariance estimation for local outlier detection
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Publication:159474
DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2305.05371arXiv2305.05371MaRDI QIDQ159474FDOQ159474
Peter Filzmoser, Patricia Puchhammer
Publication date: 9 May 2023
Abstract: Most multivariate outlier detection procedures ignore the spatial dependency of observations, which is present in many real data sets from various application areas. This paper introduces a new outlier detection method that accounts for a (continuously) varying covariance structure, depending on the spatial neighborhood of the observations. The underlying estimator thus constitutes a compromise between a unified global covariance estimation, and local covariances estimated for individual neighborhoods. Theoretical properties of the estimator are presented, in particular related to robustness properties, and an efficient algorithm for its computation is introduced. The performance of the method is evaluated and compared based on simulated data and for a data set recorded from Austrian weather stations.
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