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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

We design an efficient data structure for computing a suitably defined approximate depth of any query point in the arrangement $\mathcal{A}(S)$ of a collection $S$ of $n$ halfplanes or triangles in the plane or of halfspaces or simplices in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Dror Aiger , Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir

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

Tukey's depth (or halfspace depth) is a widely used measure of centrality for multivariate data. However, exact computation of Tukey's depth is known to be a hard problem in high dimensions. As a remedy, randomized approximations of Tukey's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Simon Briend , Gábor Lugosi , Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira

We introduce a novel projection depth for data lying in a general Hilbert space, called the regularized projection depth, with a focus on functional data. By regularizing projection directions, the proposed depth does not suffer from the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-24 Filip Bočinec , Stanislav Nagy , Hyemin Yeon

We present a new fast approximate algorithm for Tukey (halfspace) depth level sets and its implementation-ABCDepth. Given a $d$-dimensional data set for any $d\geq 1$, the algorithm is based on a representation of level sets as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Milica Bogićević , Milan Merkle

The notion of data depth has long been in use to obtain robust location and scale estimates in a multivariate setting. The depth of an observation is a measure of its centrality, with respect to a data set or a distribution. The data depths…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-09-29 Sara López-Pintado , Rebecka Jornsten

As a measure for the centrality of a point in a set of multivariate data, statistical depth functions play important roles in multivariate analysis, because one may conveniently construct descriptive as well as inferential procedures…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-12 Xiaohui Liu , Yuanyuan Li

Functional depth is the functional data analysis technique that orders a functional data set. Unlike the case of data on the real line, defining this order is non-trivial, and particularly, with functional data, there are a number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-29 Alicia Nieto-Reyes , John A. D. Aston

The computation of the Tukey depth, also called halfspace depth, is very demanding, even in low dimensional spaces, because it requires the consideration of all possible one-dimensional projections. In this paper we propose a random depth…

Computation · Statistics 2007-07-03 J. A. Cuesta-Albertos , A. Nieto-Reyes

There are many methods developed to approximate a cloud of vectors embedded in high-dimensional space by simpler objects: starting from principal points and linear manifolds to self-organizing maps, neural gas, elastic maps, various types…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-01 E. M. Mirkes , A. Zinovyev , A. N. Gorban

The concept of depth represents methods to measure how deep an arbitrary point is positioned in a dataset and can be seen as the opposite of outlyingness. It has proved very useful and a wide range of methods have been developed based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-09 Hugo Lewi Hammer , Anis Yazidi , Håvard Rue

Depth is a complexity measure for natural systems of the kind studied in statistical physics and is defined in terms of computational complexity. Depth quantifies the length of the shortest parallel computation required to construct a…

Popular Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Jon Machta

The scatter halfspace depth (sHD) is an extension of the location halfspace (also called Tukey) depth that is applicable in the nonparametric analysis of scatter. Using sHD, it is possible to define minimax optimal robust scatter estimators…

Computation · Statistics 2022-08-11 Xiaohui Liu , Yuzi Liu , Petra Laketa , Stanislav Nagy , Yuting Chen

Statistical depth is the act of gauging how representative a point is compared to a reference probability measure. The depth allows introducing rankings and orderings to data living in multivariate, or function spaces. Though widely applied…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-28 George Wynne , Stanislav Nagy

Data depth is a well-known and useful nonparametric tool for analyzing functional data. It provides a novel way of ranking a sample of curves from the center outwards and defining robust statistics, such as the median or trimmed means. It…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-31 Carlo Sguera , Sara López-Pintado

The absolute depth values of surrounding environments provide crucial cues for various assistive technologies, such as localization, navigation, and 3D structure estimation. We propose that accurate depth estimated from panoramic images can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Junho Kim , Eun Sun Lee , Young Min Kim

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…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-30 John H. J. Einmahl , Jun Li , Regina Y. Liu

Depth completion, aiming to predict dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements, plays a crucial role in many computer vision related applications. Deep learning approaches have demonstrated overwhelming success in this task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yu Cai , Tianyu Shen , Shi-Sheng Huang , Hua Huang

Classical multivariate statistics measures the outlyingness of a point by its Mahalanobis distance from the mean, which is based on the mean and the covariance matrix of the data. A multivariate depth function is a function which, given a…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-06 Karl Mosler , Pavlo Mozharovskyi