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Statistical tools which satisfy rigorous privacy guarantees are necessary for modern data analysis. It is well-known that robustness against contamination is linked to differential privacy. Despite this fact, using multivariate medians for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Kelly Ramsay , Aukosh Jagannath , Shoja'eddin Chenouri

We present a new algorithm for Tukey (halfspace) depth level sets and its implementation. Given $d$-dimensional data set for any $d\geq 2$, the algorithm is based on representation of level sets as intersections of balls in $R^d$, and can…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Milica Bogicevic , Milan Merkle

The Tukey (or halfspace) depth extends nonparametric methods toward multivariate data. The multivariate analogues of the quantiles are the central regions of the Tukey depth, defined as sets of points in the $d$-dimensional space whose…

Computation · Statistics 2024-09-30 Vít Fojtík , Petra Laketa , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Stanislav Nagy

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

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

We investigate the quantitative performance of affine-equivariant estimators for robust mean estimation. As a natural stability requirement, the construction of such affine-equivariant estimators has been extensively studied in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Zihao Chen , Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri

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

We study families of depth measures defined by natural sets of axioms. We show that any such depth measure is a constant factor approximation of Tukey depth. We further investigate the dimensions of depth regions, showing that the Cascade…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Patrick Schnider

Notions of depth in regression have been introduced and studied in the literature. Regression depth (RD) of Rousseeuw and Hubert (1999), the most famous one, is a direct extension of Tukey location depth (Tukey (1975)) to regression. Like…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Yijun Zuo

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

The halfspace depth is a well studied tool of nonparametric statistics in multivariate spaces, naturally inducing a multivariate generalisation of quantiles. The halfspace depth of a point with respect to a measure is defined as the infimum…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-30 Dušan Pokorný , Petra Laketa , Stanislav Nagy

Tukey depth regions are important notions in nonparametric multivariate data analysis. A $\tau$-th Tukey depth region $\mathcal{D}_{\tau}$ is the set of all points that have at least depth $\tau$. While the Tukey depth regions are easily…

Computation · Statistics 2014-04-17 Xiaohui Liu

Halfspace (or Tukey) depth is a fundamental and robust measure of centrality of data points in multivariate datasets. Computing the depth of a point with respect to the uniform distribution on an open convex body in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Purvi Gupta , Anant Narayanan

Linear regression is a fundamental tool for statistical analysis. This has motivated the development of linear regression methods that also satisfy differential privacy and thus guarantee that the learned model reveals little about any one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Kareem Amin , Matthew Joseph , Mónica Ribero , Sergei Vassilvitskii

We give the first differentially private algorithms that estimate a variety of geometric features of points in the Euclidean space, such as diameter, width, volume of convex hull, min-bounding box, min-enclosing ball etc. Our work relies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yue Gao , Or Sheffet

We study empirical variants of the halfspace (Tukey) depth of a probability measure $\mu$, which are obtained by replacing $\mu$ with the corresponding weighted empirical measure. We prove analogues of the Marcinkiewicz--Zygmund strong law…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Andrii Ilienko , Ilya Molchanov , Riccardo Turin

For any given partial order in a $d$-dimensional euclidean space, under mild regularity assumptions, we show that the intersection of closed (generalized) intervals containing more than 1/2 of the probability mass, is a non-empty compact…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-05 Djordje Baljozovic , Milan Merkle

In this paper, we introduce a new evolutionary optimization algorithm based on Tukey's symmetric lambda distribution. Tukey distribution is defined by 3 parameters, the shape parameter, the scale parameter, and the location parameter or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Vahraz Jamnejad , Ahmad Hoorfar

We analyze the performance of the Tukey median estimator under total variation (TV) distance corruptions. Previous results show that under Huber's additive corruption model, the breakdown point is 1/3 for high-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Banghua Zhu , Jiantao Jiao , Jacob Steinhardt

Tukey's halfspace median ($\HM$), servicing as the {multivariate} counterpart of the univariate median, has been introduced and extensively studied in the literature. It is supposed and expected to preserve robustness property (the most…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Xiaohui Liu , Yijun Zuo , Qihua Wang