inst/doc/examples/example-lambda0.R

In aalfons/robustHD: Robust Methods for High-Dimensional Data

## generate data
# example is not high-dimensional to keep computation time low
library("mvtnorm")
set.seed(1234)  # for reproducibility
n <- 100  # number of observations
p <- 25   # number of variables
beta <- rep.int(c(1, 0), c(5, p-5))  # coefficients
sigma <- 0.5      # controls signal-to-noise ratio
epsilon <- 0.1    # contamination level
Sigma <- 0.5^t(sapply(1:p, function(i, j) abs(i-j), 1:p))
x <- rmvnorm(n, sigma=Sigma)    # predictor matrix
e <- rnorm(n)                   # error terms
i <- 1:ceiling(epsilon*n)       # observations to be contaminated
e[i] <- e[i] + 5                # vertical outliers
y <- c(x %*% beta + sigma * e)  # response
x[i,] <- x[i,] + 5              # bad leverage points

## estimate smallest value of the penalty parameter 
## that sets all coefficients to 0
lambda0(x, y)