R: Asymmetric neighborhood based discriminant coordinates

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## Asymmetric neighborhood based discriminant coordinates

### Description

Asymmetric neighborhood based discriminant coordinates as defined in Hennig (2003). Asymmetric discriminant projection means that there are two classes, one of which is treated as the homogeneous class (i.e., it should appear homogeneous and separated in the resulting projection) while the other may be heterogeneous. The principle is to maximize the ratio between the projection of a between classes covariance matrix, which is defined by averaging the between classes covariance matrices in the neighborhoods of the points of the homogeneous class and the projection of the covariance matrix within the homogeneous class.

### Usage

    ancoord(xd, clvecd, clnum=1, nn=50, method="mcd", countmode=1000, ...)

### Arguments

`xd` | the data matrix; a numerical object which can be coerced to a matrix.
`clvecd` | integer vector of class numbers; length must equal `nrow(xd)`.
`clnum` | integer. Number of the homogeneous class.
`nn` | integer. Number of points which belong to the neighborhood of each point (including the point itself).
`method` | one of "mve", "mcd" or "classical". Covariance matrix used within the homogeneous class. "mcd" and "mve" are robust covariance matrices as implemented in `cov.rob`. "classical" refers to the classical covariance matrix.
`countmode` | optional positive integer. Every `countmode` algorithm runs `ancoord` shows a message.
`...` | no effect

### Details

The square root of the homogeneous classes covariance matrix is inverted by use of `tdecomp`, which can be expected to give reasonable results for singular within-class covariance matrices.

### Value

List with the following components

`ev` | eigenvalues in descending order.
`units` | columns are coordinates of projection basis vectors. New points `x` can be projected onto the projection basis vectors by `x %*% units`
`proj` | projections of `xd` onto `units`.

### Author(s)

Christian Hennig c.hennig@ucl.ac.uk http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche/

### References

Hennig, C. (2004) Asymmetric linear dimension reduction for classification. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 13, 930-945 .

Hennig, C. (2005) A method for visual cluster validation. In: Weihs, C. and Gaul, W. (eds.): Classification - The Ubiquitous Challenge. Springer, Heidelberg 2005, 153-160.

### See Also

`plotcluster` for straight forward discriminant plots. `discrproj` for alternatives. `rFace` for generation of the example data used below.

### Examples

      set.seed(4634)
      face <- rFace(600,dMoNo=2,dNoEy=0)
      grface <- as.integer(attr(face,"grouping"))
      ancf2 <- ancoord(face,grface==4)
      plot(ancf2$proj,col=1+(grface==4))
      # ...done in one step by function plotcluster.

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