SMS scnews item created by John Ormerod at Thu 7 Sep 2017 2138
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 15 Sep 2017
Calendar1: 15 Sep 2017 1400-1500
CalLoc1: Carslaw 173
CalTitle1: Outlier detection for a complex linear mixed model: an application to plant breeding trials
Auth: jormerod@ppp121-44-250-65.bras2.syd2.internode.on.net (jormerod) in SMS-WASM

# Statistics Seminar: Emi Tanaka (Uinversity of Sydney) -- Outlier detection for a complex linear mixed model: an application to plant breeding trials


Abstract:

Outlier detection is an important preliminary step in the data analysis often
conducted through a form of residual analysis. A complex data, such as those
that are analysed by linear mixed models, gives rise to distinct levels of
residuals and thus offers additional challenges for the development of an
outlier detection method. Plant breeding trials are routinely conducted over
years and multiple locations with the aim to select the best genotype as
parents or commercial release. These so-called multi-environmental trials
(MET) is commonly analysed using linear mixed models which may include cubic
splines and autoregressive process to account for spatial trends. We consider
some statistics derived from mean and variance shift outlier model (MSOM/VSOM)
and the generalised Cook’s distance (GCD) for outlier detection. We present a
simulation study based on a set of real wheat yield trials.


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