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Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

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Statistical depth measures the centrality of a point with respect to a given distribution or data cloud. It provides a natural center-outward ordering of multivariate data points and yields a systematic nonparametric multivariate analysis…

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Over the past decades, the concept "partial smoothness" has been playing as a powerful tool in several fields involving nonsmooth analysis, such as nonsmooth optimization, inverse problems and operation research, etc. The essence of partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Ziqi Qin , Jingwei Liang

In recent years, manifold methods have moved into focus as tools for dimension reduction. Assuming that the high-dimensional data actually lie on or close to a low-dimensional nonlinear manifold, these methods have shown convincing results…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-23 Moritz Herrmann , Fabian Scheipl

Directional data are constrained to lie on the unit sphere of~$\mathbb{R}^q$ for some~$q\geq 2$. To address the lack of a natural ordering for such data, depth functions have been defined on spheres. However, the depths available either…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Giuseppe Pandolfo , Davy Paindaveine , Giovanni Porzio

For computing the exact value of the halfspace depth of a point w.r.t. a data cloud of $n$ points in arbitrary dimension, a theoretical framework is suggested. Based on this framework a whole class of algorithms can be derived. In all of…

Computation · Statistics 2016-01-13 Rainer Dyckerhoff , Pavlo Mozharovskyi

The statistical rank tests play important roles in univariate non-parametric data analysis. If one attempts to generalize the rank tests to a multivariate case, the problem of defining a multivariate order will occur. It is not clear how to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Rasoul Shahsavarifar

We propose a framework for descriptively analyzing sets of partial orders based on the concept of depth functions. Despite intensive studies of depth functions in linear and metric spaces, there is very little discussion on depth functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Hannah Blocher , Georg Schollmeyer , Christoph Jansen , Malte Nalenz

Data depth functions are a generalization of one-dimensional order statistics and medians to real spaces of dimension greater than one; in particular, a data depth function quantifies the centrality of a point with respect to a data set or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Michael Burr , Robert Fabrizio

In the context of functional data analysis, we propose new two sample tests for homogeneity. Based on some well-known depth measures, we construct four different statistics in order to measure distance between the two samples. A simulation…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-08 Ramón Flores , Rosa Lillo , Juan Romo

We propose a complexity measure which addresses the functional flexibility of networks. It is conjectured that the functional flexibility is reflected in the topological diversity of the assigned graphs, resulting from a resolution of their…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

In classical density (or density-functional) estimation, it is standard to assume that the underlying distribution has a density with respect to the Lebesgue measure. However, when the data distribution is a mixture of continuous and…

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Data streams (streaming data) consist of transiently observed, evolving in time, multidimensional data sequences that challenge our computational and/or inferential capabilities. In this paper we propose user friendly approaches for robust…

Applications · Statistics 2015-01-20 Daniel Kosiorowski

The data functions that are studied in the course of functional data analysis are assembled from discrete data, and the level of smoothing that is used is generally that which is appropriate for accurate approximation of the conceptually…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Raymond J. Carroll , Aurore Delaigle , Peter Hall

Interpretability is central to trustworthy machine learning, yet existing metrics rarely quantify how effectively data support an interpretive representation. We propose Interpretive Efficiency, a normalized, task-aware functional that…

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We introduce derivation depth-a computable metric of the reasoning effort needed to answer a query based on a given set of premises. We model information as a two-layered structure linking abstract knowledge with physical carriers, and…

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The network density matrix formalism allows for describing the dynamics of information on top of complex structures and it has been successfully used to analyze from system's robustness to perturbations to coarse graining multilayer…

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We introduce a new sufficient dimension reduction framework that targets a statistical functional of interest, and propose an efficient estimator for the semiparametric estimation problems of this type. The statistical functional covers a…

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Multi-dimensional functional data arises in numerous modern scientific experimental and observational studies. In this paper we focus on longitudinal functional data, a structured form of multidimensional functional data. Operating within a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-20 John Shamshoian , Damla Senturk , Shafali Jeste , Donatello Telesca

Roughness determines many functional properties of surfaces, such as adhesion, friction, and (thermal and electrical) contact conductance. Recent analytical models and simulations enable quantitative prediction of these properties from…

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