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We establish finite-sample error bounds in expectation for transformed Fr\'echet means in Hadamard spaces under minimal assumptions. Transformed Fr\'echet means provide a unifying framework encompassing classical and robust notions of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Christof Schötz

Fr\'echet means, conceptually appealing, generalize the Euclidean expectation to general metric spaces. We explore how well Fr\'echet means can be estimated from independent and identically distributed samples and uncover a fundamental…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Shayan Hundrieser , Benjamin Eltzner , Stephan F. Huckemann

Barycenters (aka Fr\'echet means) were introduced in statistics in the 1940's and popularized in the fields of shape statistics and, later, in optimal transport and matrix analysis. They provide the most natural extension of linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Victor-Emmanuel Brunel , Jordan Serres

Non-Euclidean data that are indexed with a scalar predictor such as time are increasingly encountered in data applications, while statistical methodology and theory for such random objects are not well developed yet. To address the need for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-24 Zhenhua Lin , Hans-Georg Müller

Fr\'echet mean and variance provide a way of obtaining mean and variance for general metric space valued random variables and can be used for statistical analysis of data objects that lie in abstract spaces devoid of algebraic structure and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Paromita Dubey , Hans-Georg Müller

For sets $\mathcal Q$ and $\mathcal Y$, the generalized Fr\'echet mean $m \in \mathcal Q$ of a random variable $Y$, which has values in $\mathcal Y$, is any minimizer of $q\mapsto \mathbb E[\mathfrak c(q,Y)]$, where $\mathfrak c \colon…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Christof Schötz

Estimating the mean of a random vector from i.i.d. data has received considerable attention, and the optimal accuracy one may achieve with a given confidence is fairly well understood by now. When the data take values in more general metric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Daniel Bartl , Gabor Lugosi , Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira , Zoraida F. Rico

We consider the problem of estimating the Fr\'echet and conditional Fr\'echet mean from data taking values in separable metric spaces. Unlike Euclidean spaces, where well-established methods are available, there is no practical estimator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-06 László Györfi , Pierre Humbert , Batiste Le Bars

This paper provides rates of convergence for empirical (generalised) barycenters on compact geodesic metric spaces under general conditions using empirical processes techniques. Our main assumption is termed a variance inequality and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Adil Ahidar-Coutrix , Thibaut Le Gouic , Quentin Paris

Fr\'echet means are a popular type of average for non-Euclidean datasets, defined as those points which minimise the average squared distance to a set of data points. We consider the behaviour of sample Fr\'echet means on normed spaces…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Roan Talbut , Andrew McCormack , Anthea Monod

The Fr\'echet mean generalizes the concept of a mean to a metric space setting. In this work we consider equivariant estimation of Fr\'echet means for parametric models on metric spaces that are Riemannian manifolds. The geometry and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Andrew McCormack , Peter Hoff

While there exists a well-developed asymptotic theory of Fr\'echet means of random variables taking values in a general "finite-dimensional" metric space, there are only a few known results in which the random variables can take values in…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Adam Quinn Jaffe

In this short note, we study the properties of the weighted Frechet mean as a convex combination operator on an arbitrary metric space, (Y,d). We show that this binary operator is commutative, non-associative, idempotent, invariant to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-13 Cedric E. Ginestet , Andrew Simmons , Eric D. Kolaczyk

In this paper, we first prove that any interior point of an open interval of the real line can be interpreted as Fr\'echet means with respect to corresponding metric distances, thus extending the result of [Dinh et al., Mathematical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Frank Nielsen

The geometric median as well as the Frechet mean of points in an Hadamard space are important in both theory and applications. Surprisingly, no algorithms for their computation are hitherto known. To address this issue, we use a split…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Miroslav Bacak

We provide sufficient conditions for quantitative convergence of the iterates of proximal splitting algorithms for minimizing a sum of functions on a metric space. The theory does not assume that the functions have common minima, nor does…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 D. Russell Luke , Mahshid Mirhashemi

The Frechet mean or barycenter generalizes the idea of averaging in spaces where pairwise addition is not well-defined. In general metric spaces, the Frechet sample mean is not a consistent estimator of the theoretical Frechet mean. For…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-16 Cedric E. Ginestet

In Euclidean spaces, the empirical mean vector as an estimator of the population mean is known to have polynomial concentration unless a strong tail assumption is imposed on the underlying probability measure. The idea of median-of-means…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Ho Yun , Byeong U. Park

We are interested in measures of central tendency for a population on a network, which is modeled by a metric tree. The location parameters that we study are generalized Fr\'echet means obtained by minimizing the objective function $\alpha…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Gabriel Romon , Victor-Emmanuel Brunel

Fr\'echet regression is becoming a mainstay in modern data analysis for analyzing non-traditional data types belonging to general metric spaces. This novel regression method is especially useful in the analysis of complex health data such…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-23 Abdul-Nasah Soale , Congli Ma , Siyu Chen , Obed Koomson
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