An attempt to analyse Iterative Data Snooping and L1-norm based on Monte Carlo simulation in the context of leveling networks

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the outlier identification performance of iterative Data Snooping (IDS) and L-1-norm in levelling networks by considering the redundancy of the network, number and size of the outliers. For this purpose, several Monte-Carlo experiments were conducted into three different levelling networks configurations. In addition, a new way to compare the results of IDS based on Least Squares (LS) residuals and robust estimators such as the L-1-norm has also been developed and presented. From the perspective of analysis only according to the success rate, it is shown that L-1-norm performs better than IDS for the case of networks with low redundancy ((r) over bar < 0.5), especially for cases where more than one outlier is present in the dataset. In the relationship between false positive rate and outlier identification success rate, however, IDS performs better than L-1-norm, independently of the levelling network configuration, number and size of outliers.