Robust Outlier Detection in a Multivariate Linear Regression Model

Outlier detection has been extensively studied and has gained widespread popularity in the field of statistics. As a consequence, many methods for detecting outlying observations have been developed and studied. However, a number of these approaches developed are specific to certain application domain in the univariate case, while apparently robust and useful have not made their way into general practice. In this paper, we considered Mahalanobis Distance technique, k-mean clustering technique and Principal component Analysis technique using data on birth weight, birth height and head circumference at birth from 100 infants from 2016 to 2019.To determine robustness among the multivariate outlier detection techniques, among others are selected for analysis. The Akaike’s, Schwarz’s and Hannan-Quinn criterion as well as the R2 were used to determine the most robust regression among the selected models. Findings indicates that the k-mean Clustering technique outperforms the other two technique in regression model.