Robust model-based clustering with mild and gross outliers
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Alessio Farcomeni [2] ; Antonio Punzo [1]
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[1] University of Catania
University of Catania
Catania, Italia
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[2] Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via Columbia 2, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Localización: Test: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, ISSN-e 1863-8260, ISSN 1133-0686, Vol. 29, Nº. 4, 2020, págs. 989-1007
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
We propose a model-based clustering procedure where each component can take into account cluster-specific mild outliers through a flexible distributional assumption, and a proportion of observations is additionally trimmed. We propose a penalized likelihood approach for estimation and selection of the proportions of mild and gross outliers. A theoretically grounded penalty parameter is then obtained. Simulation studies illustrate the advantages of our procedure over flexible mixtures without trimming, and over trimmed normal mixture models (tclust). We conclude with an original real data example on the identification of the source from illicit drug shipments seized in Italy and Spain. The methodology proposed in this paper has been implemented in R functions which can be downloaded from https://github.com/afarcome/cntclust.
