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Statistical depth functions order the elements of a space with respect to their centrality in a probability distribution or dataset. Since many depth functions are maximized in the real line by the median, they provide a natural approach to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Luis González-De La Fuente , Alicia Nieto-Reyes , Pedro Terán

Statistical data depth plays an important role in the analysis of multivariate data sets. The main outcome is a center-outward ordering of the observations that can be used both to highlight features of the underlying distribution of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Giacomo Francisci , Claudio Agostinelli

A data depth measures the centrality of a point with respect to an empirical distribution. Postulates are formulated, which a depth for functional data should satisfy, and a general approach is proposed to construct multivariate data depths…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-01-31 Karl Mosler , Yulia Polyakova

We develop a novel exploratory tool for non-Euclidean object data based on data depth, extending the celebrated Tukey's depth for Euclidean data. The proposed metric halfspace depth, applicable to data objects in a general metric space,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-02 Xiongtao Dai , Sara Lopez-Pintado

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

We study a statistical data depth with respect to compact convex random sets which is consistent with the multivariate Tukey depth and the Tukey depth for fuzzy sets. In doing so, we provide a series of properties for statistical data depth…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Luis González-De La Fuente , Alicia Nieto-Reyes , Pedro Terán

Laboratory scientists are well equipped with statistical tools for univariate data, yet many phenomena of scientific interest are time-variant or otherwise multidimensional. Functional data analysis is one way of approaching such data: by…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-28 Julian Lehrer , Mircea Teodorescu , Yohei Rosen

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

A functional data depth provides a center-outward ordering criterion which allows the definition of measures such as median, trimmed means, central regions or ranks in a functional framework. A functional data depth can be global or local.…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-06 Carlo Sguera , Rosa E. Lillo

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

Directional data arise in many applications where observations are naturally represented as unit vectors or as observations on the surface of a unit hypersphere. In this context, statistical depth functions provide a center--outward…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-24 Giuseppe Gismondi , Rebecca Rivieccio , Giuseppe Pandolfo

Depth is a concept that measures the `centrality' of a point in a given data cloud or in a given probability distribution. Every depth defines a family of so-called trimmed regions. For statistical applications it is desirable that with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Rainer Dyckerhoff

Measures of data depth have been studied extensively for point data. Motivated by recent work on analysis, clustering, and identifying representative elements in sets of trajectories, we introduce {\em curve stabbing depth} to quantify how…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Stephane Durocher , Alexandre Leblanc , Spencer Szabados

We propose a novel measure of statistical depth, the metric spatial depth, for data residing in an arbitrary metric space. The measure assigns high (low) values for points located near (far away from) the bulk of the data distribution,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Joni Virta

Tukey's depth offers a powerful tool for nonparametric inference and estimation, but also encounters serious computational and methodological difficulties in modern statistical data analysis. This paper studies how to generalize and compute…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-04 Yiyuan She , Shao Tang , Jingze Liu

The angular halfspace depth (ahD) is a natural modification of the celebrated halfspace (or Tukey) depth to the setup of directional data. It allows us to define elements of nonparametric inference, such as the median, the inter-quantile…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Stanislav Nagy , Petra Laketa

Robust estimation of location is a fundamental problem in statistics, particularly in scenarios where data contamination by outliers or model misspecification is a concern. In univariate settings, methods such as the sample median and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Alejandro Cholaquidis , Ricardo Fraiman , Leonardo Moreno , Gonzalo Perera

The use of quantiles to obtain insights about multivariate data is addressed. It is argued that incisive insights can be obtained by considering directional quantiles, the quantiles of projections. Directional quantile envelopes are…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-01 Linglong Kong , Ivan Mizera

Geometric data analysis and learning has emerged as a distinct and rapidly developing research area, increasingly recognized for its effectiveness across diverse applications. At the heart of this field lies curvature, a powerful and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yasharth Yadav , Kelin Xia

Statistical analysis of functional data is challenging due to their complex patterns, for which functional depth provides an effective means of reflecting their ordering structure. In this work, we investigate practical aspects of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-27 Filip Bočinec , Stanislav Nagy , Hyemin Yeon