R: Waterflow Measurements of Kootenay River in Libby and Newgate

kootenay {robustbase} | R Documentation

## Waterflow Measurements of Kootenay River in Libby and Newgate

### Description

The original data set is the waterflow in January of the Kootenay river, measured at two locations, namely, Libby (Montana) and Newgate (British Columbia) for 13 consecutive years, 1931–1943.

The data set is of mostly interest because it has been used as example in innumerous didactical situations about robust regression. To this end, one number (in observation 4) has been modified from the original data from originally 44.9 to 15.7 (here).

### Usage

    data(kootenay)

### Format

A data frame with 13 observations on the following 2 variables.

`Libby`

  a numeric vector

`Newgate`

  a numeric vector

### Details

The original (unmodified) version of the data is easily obtainable as `kootenay0` from the examples; other modified versions of the data sets are also used in different places, see the examples below.

### Source

Original Data, p.58f of Ezekiel and Fox (1959), Methods of Correlation and Regression Analysis. Wiley, N.Y.

### References

Hampel, F., Ronchetti, E., Rousseeuw, P. and Stahel, W. (1986) Robust Statistics: The Approach Based on Influence Functions; Wiley, N.Y.

Rousseeuw, P. J. and Leroy, A. M. (1987) Robust Regression & Outlier Detection, Wiley, N. Y.

### Examples

    data(kootenay)
    plot(kootenay, main = "'kootenay' data")
    points(kootenay[4,], col = 2, cex =2, pch = 3)

    abline(lm   (Newgate ~ Libby, data = kootenay), col = "pink")
    abline(lmrob(Newgate ~ Libby, data = kootenay), col = "blue")

    ## The original version of Ezekiel & Fox:
    kootenay0 <- kootenay
    kootenay0[4, "Newgate"] <- 44.9
    plot(kootenay0, main = "'kootenay0': the original data")
    abline(lm   (Newgate ~ Libby, data = kootenay0), col = "pink")
    abline(lmrob(Newgate ~ Libby, data = kootenay0), col = "blue")

    ## The version with "milder" outlier -- Hampel et al., p.310
    kootenay2 <- kootenay0
    kootenay2[4, "Libby"] <- 20.0 # instead of 77.6
    plot(kootenay2, main = "The 'kootenay2' data",
         xlim = range(kootenay[,"Libby"]))
    points(kootenay2[4,], col = 2, cex =2, pch = 3)
    abline(lm   (Newgate ~ Libby, data = kootenay2), col = "pink")
    abline(lmrob(Newgate ~ Libby, data = kootenay2), col = "blue")

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