Improved classification for compositional data using the -transformation

DOI10.1007/S00357-016-9207-5zbMATH Open1349.62284arXiv1506.04976OpenAlexW2120877273MaRDI QIDQ333340FDOQ333340

Michail Tsagris, Simon Preston, Andrew T. A. Wood

Publication date: 28 October 2016

Published in: Journal of Classification (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In compositional data analysis an observation is a vector containing non-negative values, only the relative sizes of which are considered to be of interest. Without loss of generality, a compositional vector can be taken to be a vector of proportions that sum to one. Data of this type arise in many areas including geology, archaeology, biology, economics and political science. In this paper we investigate methods for classification of compositional data. Our approach centres on the idea of using the $alpha$-transformation to transform the data and then to classify the transformed data via regularised discriminant analysis and the k-nearest neighbours algorithm. Using the $alpha$-transformation generalises two rival approaches in compositional data analysis, one (when $alpha=1$) that treats the data as though they were Euclidean, ignoring the compositional constraint, and another (when $alpha=0$) that employs Aitchison's centred log-ratio transformation. A numerical study with several real datasets shows that whether using $alpha=1$ or $alpha=0$ gives better classification performance depends on the dataset, and moreover that using an intermediate value of $alpha$ can sometimes give better performance than using either 1 or 0.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04976

zbMATH Keywords

\(\alpha\)-transformationclassificationcompositional dataJensen-Shannon divergence\(\alpha\)-metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Geostatistics (86A32)

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Uses Software

• UCI-ml
• ElemStatLearn
• QFASA
• Compositional

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