CovControlMcd {rrcov}R Documentation

Constructor function for objects of class "CovControlMcd"

Description

This function will create a control object CovControlMcd containing the control parameters for CovMcd

Usage

CovControlMcd(alpha = 0.5, nsamp = 500, seed = NULL, trace= FALSE, use.correction = TRUE)

Arguments

alpha numeric parameter controlling the size of the subsets over which the determinant is minimized, i.e., alpha*n observations are used for computing the determinant. Allowed values are between 0.5 and 1 and the default is 0.5.
nsamp number of subsets used for initial estimates or "best" or "exact". Default is nsamp = 500. For nsamp="best" exhaustive enumeration is done, as long as the number of trials does not exceed 5000. For "exact", exhaustive enumeration will be attempted however many samples are needed. In this case a warning message will be displayed saying that the computation can take a very long time.
seed starting value for random generator. Default is seed = NULL
trace whether to print intermediate results. Default is trace = FALSE
use.correction whether to use finite sample correction factors. Default is use.correction=TRUE

Value

A CovControlMcd object

Author(s)

Valentin Todorov valentin.todorov@chello.at

Examples

    ## the following two statements are equivalent
    ctrl1 <- new("CovControlMcd", alpha=0.75)
    ctrl2 <- CovControlMcd(alpha=0.75)

    data(hbk)
    CovMcd(hbk, control=ctrl1)    

[Package rrcov version 0.5-01 Index]