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Tensor-based projection depth

Statistics Theory 2012-01-06 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

The conventional definition of a depth function is vector-based. In this paper, a novel projection depth (PD) technique directly based on tensors, such as matrices, is instead proposed. Tensor projection depth (TPD) is still an ideal depth function and its computation can be achieved through the iteration of PD. Furthermore, we also discuss the cases for sparse samples and higher order tensors. Experimental results in data classification with the two projection depths show that TPD performs much better than PD for data with a natural tensor form, and even when the data have a natural vector form, TPD appears to perform no worse than PD.

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@article{arxiv.1201.1146,
  title  = {Tensor-based projection depth},
  author = {Yonggang Hu and Yong Wang and Yi Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.1146},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/10-BEJ317 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)

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