ExtKur: ExtKur: kurtosis based projection pursuit

In Kurt: Performs Kurtosis-Based Statistical Analyses

Description

Returns a data projection with either maximal or minimal kurtosis.

Usage

ExtKur(data, iterations, maxmin)

Arguments

data	data matrix
iterations	number of required iterations
maxmin	is the choice to either maximise ("MAX") or minimise ("MIN") kurtosis

Value

linear	vector of coefficients
projection	vector of projected data
kurt	extreme kurtosis attainable by a data projection

Author(s)

Cinzia Franceschini and Nicola Loperfido

Examples

data(iris)
iris<-data.matrix(iris)#returns the matrix obtained by converting the data frame to numeric mode
ExtKur(iris[,1:4],10,"MAX") #returns a data projection with maximal kurtosis

Kurt documentation built on Sept. 20, 2021, 5:17 p.m.