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Data depths are score functions that quantify in an unsupervised fashion how central is a point inside a distribution, with numerous applications such as anomaly detection, multivariate or functional data analysis, arising across various…

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We introduce classifiers based on directional quantiles. We derive theoretical results for selecting optimal quantile levels given a direction, and, conversely, an optimal direction given a quantile level. We also show that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-14 Alessio Farcomeni , Marco Geraci , Cinzia Viroli

Statistical depths provide a fundamental generalization of quantiles and medians to data in higher dimensions. This paper proposes a new type of globally defined statistical depth, based upon control theory and eikonal equations, which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Martin Molina-Fructuoso , Ryan Murray

In recent years, there has been a surge in the prevalence of high- and multi-dimensional temporal data across various scientific disciplines. These datasets are characterized by their vast size and challenging potential for analysis. Such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Vanessa Freitas Silva , Maria Eduarda Silva , Pedro Ribeiro , Fernando Silva

Geometric (also known as spatial) quantiles, introduced by Chaudhury and representing one of the three principal approaches to defining multivariate quantiles, have been well studied in the literature. In this work, we focus on the extremal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Sibsankar Singha , Marie Kratz , Sreekar Vadlamani

We develop a novel approach for the construction of quantile processes governing the stochastic dynamics of quantiles in continuous time. Two classes of quantile diffusions are identified: the first, which we largely focus on, features a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Holly Brannelly , Andrea Macrina , Gareth W. Peters

The past few years have seen a revived interest in quantum geometrical characterizations of band structures due to the rapid development of topological insulators and semi-metals. Although the metric tensor has been connected to many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Adrien Bouhon , Abigail Timmel , Robert-Jan Slager

Determining the representativeness of a point within a data cloud has recently become a desirable task in multivariate analysis. The concept of statistical depth function, which reflects centrality of an arbitrary point, appears to be…

Computation · Statistics 2016-03-02 Pavlo Mozharovskyi

Percentiles and more generally, quantiles are commonly used in various contexts to summarize data. For most distributions, there is exactly one quantile that is unbiased. For distributions like the Gaussian that have the same mean and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-11 Rohit Pandey

Deep learning has enjoyed tremendous success in a variety of applications but its application to quantile regressions remains scarce. A major advantage of the deep learning approach is its flexibility to model complex data in a more…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Qixian Zhong , Jane-Ling Wang

Quantile regression is a powerful statistical methodology that complements the classical linear regression by examining how covariates influence the location, scale, and shape of the entire response distribution and offering a global view…

Applications · Statistics 2013-09-11 Lu Xiaoming , Fan Zhaozhi

The univariate quantile-quantile (Q-Q) plot is a well-known graphical tool for examining whether two data sets are generated from the same distribution or not. It is also used to determine how well a specified probability distribution fits…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-07 Subhra Sankar Dhar , Biman Chakraborty , Probal Chaudhuri

John W. Tukey (1975) defined statistical data depth as a function that determines centrality of an arbitrary point with respect to a data cloud or to a probability measure. During the last decades, this seminal idea of data depth evolved…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-24 Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Myriam Vimond

A new depth-based clustering procedure for directional data is proposed. Such method is fully non-parametric and has the advantages to be flexible and applicable even in high dimensions when a suitable notion of depth is adopted. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-22 Giuseppe Pandolfo , Antonio D'ambrosio

Kernel density estimation is a convenient way to estimate the probability density of a distribution given the sample of data points. However, it has certain drawbacks: proper description of the density using narrow kernels needs large data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-02-27 Anton Poluektov

Though the mediums for visualization are limited, the potential dimensions of a dataset are not. In many areas of scientific study, understanding the correlations between those dimensions and their uncertainties is pivotal to mining useful…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 Steve Haroz , Kwan-Liu Ma , Katrin Heitmann

Quantile regression models provide a wide picture of the conditional distributions of the response variable by capturing the effect of the covariates at different quantile levels. In most applications, the parametric form of those…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-03 T. Rodrigues , J. -L. Dortet-Bernadet , Y. Fan

Quantile regression, the prediction of conditional quantiles, finds applications in various fields. Often, some or all of the variables are discrete. The authors propose two new quantile regression approaches to handle such mixed…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-24 Niklas Schallhorn , Daniel Kraus , Thomas Nagler , Claudia Czado

Density-based clustering methodology has been widely considered in the statistical literature for classifying Euclidean observations. However, this approach has not been contemplated for directional data yet. In this work, directional…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Paula Saavedra-Nieves , Martín Fernández-Pérez

Algorithms are proposed for the computation of set-valued quantiles and the values of the lower cone distribution function for bivariate data sets. These new objects make data analysis possible involving an order relation for the data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Andreas H Hamel , Daniel Kostner