FSDA 2017b

Major statistical release. Highlights:

FSDA has introduced two new categories of tools, one for (robust) time series analysis; another for analyzing categorical data and contingency tables. More precisely:

(1) Function LTSts extends LTS estimator to time series. A related new graphical plot associated to a time series, wedgeplot, provides information on the presence of outliers and level shifts.

(2) CorAna performs correspondence analysis; SparseTableTest computes independence test for large and sparse contingency tables; CressieRead computes the power divergence family of tests, to check the discrepancy/distance between observed and expected frequencies in a contingency table; rcontFS generates a random two-way table with given marginal totals; barnardtest computes the Barnard test, corrNominal measures strength of association between two unordered (nominal) categorical variables. Similarly for ordinal data with corrOrdinal. crosstab2datamatrix recreates the original data matrix X from contingency table N. This group of functions is complemented by file examples_categorical.m as in style of FSDA.

The two categories of functions will be progressively enriched.

Other new functions which are included are boxtest (test of equality of covariance matrices used for example in tkmeans), GYfilt (Gervini and Yohai, univariate outlier identifier), mmdrsplot (interactive plot of the trajectories of minimum Mahalanobis distances from different starting points), overlapmap to plot the ordered pairwise overlap values between components, dempk to perform a merging of components found by tkmeans, ncpci to compute a non centrality parameter confidence interval.

Finally, spmplot has been enriched to superimpose ellipses, density and contour functions to data and extract single panels from the scatter matrix.