Imputation of missing values for compositional data using classical and robust methods

K. Hron, M. Templ and Peter Filzmoser

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2010, vol. 54, issue 12, 3095-3107

Abstract: New imputation algorithms for estimating missing values in compositional data are introduced. A first proposal uses the k-nearest neighbor procedure based on the Aitchison distance, a distance measure especially designed for compositional data. It is important to adjust the estimated missing values to the overall size of the compositional parts of the neighbors. As a second proposal an iterative model-based imputation technique is introduced which initially starts from the result of the proposed k-nearest neighbor procedure. The method is based on iterative regressions, thereby accounting for the whole multivariate data information. The regressions have to be performed in a transformed space, and depending on the data quality classical or robust regression techniques can be employed. The proposed methods are tested on a real and on simulated data sets. The results show that the proposed methods outperform standard imputation methods. In the presence of outliers, the model-based method with robust regressions is preferable.

Date: 2010
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