A Plot for Visualizing Multivariate Data

Rida E. A. Moustafa

George Mason UniversityADM Group,AAL

rmoustaf@galaxy.gmu.edurmustafa@aalcpas.com

Talk Outline

The Theory of MV-Plot. Detecting Linear Structures with MV-plot. Detecting Non-Linear Structures with MV-plot. Comparisons with other methods and application on real data.

MV-Plot Theory

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MV- detects linear structure(s)

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MV- detects linear structure(s)

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Detecting Linear structure(s)Example I

Detecting Linear structure(s) Example II

Detecting Linear structure(s) Example III

Detecting nonlinear datawith MV-plot

MV- plot can detect nonlinear structure in the data set without any changes in the equations.

Detecting nonlinear structure

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Detecting Sphere(s)

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Detecting Sphere(s)

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Detecting Sphere(s)

Fisher’s IRIS data (150x4) 3-classes of( 50 point each)

Process control data (600x60)6-classes of (100 points each)

Pollen data (3,848x5) (Wegman’s data)2-classes (linear and nonlinear)

Application on Real data

Multidimensional Scaling Fisher Discriminate Analysis Principal Component

Related Dimensional Reduction Methods

IRIS (R. A. Fisher) Dataset150-cases in 4-dim

Time Series Dataset600-cases in 60-dim

Pollen dataset 3,848-points in 5-dim

Other methods:

Require more storage and speed.

Even if it work, we expect bad results on this particular data.

(Wegman2002)

Pollen dataset

Linear and Nonlinear mixed structures.

The linear structure in the Pollen data set

17+16+18+17+14+16=98 Linear, 3750 nonlinear

Summary

MV-algorithm can discover the linear and nonlinear pattern at the same time.

MV-algorithm can discover symmetric data.

MV-algorithm deals with large multivariate data.