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The main focus of this work is on providing a formal definition of statistical depth for functional data on the basis of six properties, recognising topological features such as continuity, smoothness and contiguity. Amongst our depth…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Alicia Nieto-Reyes , Heather Battey

With the ubiquity of sensors in the IoT era, statistical observations are becoming increasingly available in the form of massive (multivariate) time-series. Formulated as unsupervised anomaly detection tasks, an abundance of applications…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-14 Guillaume Staerman , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Stephan Clémençon

Regression has attracted immense interest lately due to its effectiveness in tasks like predicting values. And Regression is of widespread use in multiple fields such as Economics, Finance, Business, Biology and so on. While considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yunpeng Tai

Regression is one of the most fundamental statistical inference problems. A broad definition of regression problems is as estimation of the distribution of an outcome using a family of probability models indexed by covariates. Despite the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Peter Mueller , Fernando Andrés Quintana , Garritt L. Page

The recently defined concept of a statistical depth function for fuzzy sets provides a theoretical framework for ordering fuzzy sets with respect to the distribution of a fuzzy random variable. One of the most used and studied statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-27 Luis González-De La Fuente , Alicia Nieto-Reyes , Pedro Terán

Starting with Tukey's pioneering work in the 1970's, the notion of depth in statistics has been widely extended especially in the last decade. These extensions include high dimensional data, functional data, and manifold-valued data. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Alejandro Cholaquidis , Ricardo Fraiman , Fabrice Gamboa , Leonardo Moreno

Two frameworks for multivariate functional depth based on multivariate depths are introduced in this paper. The first framework is multivariate functional integrated depth, and the second framework involves multivariate functional extremal…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-29 Zhuo Qu , Wenlin Dai , Marc G. Genton

We propose a new notion called `extremal depth' (ED) for functional data, discuss its properties, and compare its performance with existing concepts. The proposed notion is based on a measure of extreme `outlyingness'. ED has several…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-03 Naveen N. Narisetty , Vijayan N. Nair

Following the seminal idea of Tukey, data depth is a function that measures how close an arbitrary point of the space is located to an implicitly defined center of a data cloud. Having undergone theoretical and computational developments,…

Computation · Statistics 2016-08-16 Oleksii Pokotylo , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Rainer Dyckerhoff

Confidence intervals are a popular way to visualize and analyze data distributions. Unlike p-values, they can convey information both about statistical significance as well as effect size. However, very little work exists on applying…

Applications · Statistics 2017-01-23 Jussi Korpela , Emilia Oikarinen , Kai Puolamäki , Antti Ukkonen

We develop inference and testing procedures for conditional dispersion and skewness in a nonparametric regression setup based on statistical depth functions. The methods developed can be applied in situations, where the response is…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-17 Joydeep Chowdhury , Probal Chaudhuri

The notion of statistical depth has been extensively studied in multivariate and functional data over the past few decades. In contrast, the depth on temporal point process is still under-explored. The problem is challenging because a point…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-24 Zishen Xu , Chenran Wang , Wei Wu

The regression depth of a hyperplane with respect to a set of n points in R^d is the minimum number of points the hyperplane must pass through in a rotation to vertical. We generalize hyperplane regression depth to k-flats for any k between…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-01-21 Marshall Bern , David Eppstein

Loss functions are at the heart of deep learning, shaping how models learn and perform across diverse tasks. They are used to quantify the difference between predicted outputs and ground truth labels, guiding the optimization process to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Omar Elharrouss , Yasir Mahmood , Yassine Bechqito , Mohamed Adel Serhani , Elarbi Badidi , Jamal Riffi , Hamid Tairi

The Oja depth (simplicial volume depth) is one of the classical statistical techniques for measuring the central tendency of data in multivariate space. Despite the widespread emergence of object data like images, texts, matrices or graphs,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-31 Vida Zamanifarizhandi , Joni Virta

Discrete convex functions are used in many areas, including operations research, discrete-event systems, game theory, and economics. The objective of this paper is to offer a survey on fundamental operations for various kinds of discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Kazuo Murota

The notion of probability density for a random function is not as straightforward as in finite-dimensional cases. While a probability density function generally does not exist for functional data, we show that it is possible to develop the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Aurore Delaigle , Peter Hall

Classical deep learning typically operates on individual cases. Despite its success, real-world usage often requires repeated inference to estimate statistical quantities for complex decision-making tasks involving uncertainty or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daniel Xu , Yuxin Xie , Minghao Guo , Haixu Wu , Wojciech Matusik

Classic measures of graph centrality capture distinct aspects of node importance, from the local (e.g., degree) to the global (e.g., closeness). Here we exploit the connection between diffusion and geometry to introduce a multiscale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-29 Alexis Arnaudon , Robert L. Peach , Mauricio Barahona

Depth notions in location have fascinated tremendous attention in the literature. In fact data depth and its applications remain one of the most active research topics in statistics in the last two decades. Most favored notions of depth in…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-08 Yijun Zuo