Artificial Neural Networks to Impute Rounded Zeros in Compositional Data

Matthias Templ ()
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Matthias Templ: Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Data Analysis and Process Design

A chapter in Advances in Compositional Data Analysis, 2021, pp 163-187 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Methods of deep learning have become increasingly popular in recent years, but they have not arrived in compositional data analysis. Imputation methods for compositional data are typically applied on additive, centered, or isometric log-ratio representations of the data. Generally, methods for compositional data analysis can only be applied to observed positive entries in a data matrix. Therefore, one tries to impute missing values or measurements that were below a detection limit. In this paper, a new method for imputing rounded zeros based on artificial neural networks is shown and compared with conventional methods. We are also interested in the question whether for ANNs, a representation of the data in log-ratios for imputation purposes is relevant. It can be shown that ANNs are competitive or even performing better when imputing rounded zeros of data sets with moderate size. They deliver better results when data sets are big. Also, we can see that log-ratio transformations within the artificial neural network imputation procedure nevertheless help to improve the results. This proves that the theory of compositional data analysis and the fulfillment of all properties of compositional data analysis is still very important in the age of deep learning.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71175-7_9

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