On the effects of hard and soft equality constraints in the iterative outlier elimination procedure

Vinicius Francisco Rofatto, Marcelo Tomio Matsuoka, Ivandro Klein, Maurício Roberto Veronez and Luiz Gonzaga da Silveira Junior

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 8, 1-29

Abstract: Reliability analysis allows for the estimation of a system’s probability of detecting and identifying outliers. Failure to identify an outlier can jeopardize the reliability level of a system. Due to its importance, outliers must be appropriately treated to ensure the normal operation of a system. System models are usually developed from certain constraints. Constraints play a central role in model precision and validity. In this work, we present a detailed investigation of the effects of the hard and soft constraints on the reliability of a measurement system model. Hard constraints represent a case in which there exist known functional relations between the unknown model parameters, whereas the soft constraints are employed where such functional relations can be slightly violated depending on their uncertainty. The results highlighted that the success rate of identifying an outlier for the case of hard constraints is larger than soft constraints. This suggested that hard constraints be used in the stage of pre-processing data for the purpose of identifying and removing possible outlying measurements. After identifying and removing possible outliers, one should set up the soft constraints to propagate their uncertainties to the model parameters during the data processing.

Date: 2020
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