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Weighted Data Depth and Depth Based Discrimination
Vencálek, Ondřej ; Hlubinka, Daniel (advisor) ; Anděl, Jiří (referee) ; Malý, Marek (referee)
The concept of data depth provides a powerful nonparametric tool for multivariate data analysis. We propose a generalization of the well-known halfspace depth called weighted data depth. The weighted data depth is not affine invariant in general, but it has some useful properties as possible nonconvex central areas. We further discuss application of data depth methodology to solve discrimination problem. Several classifiers based on data depth are reviewed and one new classifier is proposed. The new classifier is a modification of k-nearest- neighbour classifier. Classifiers are compared in a short simulation study. Advantage gained from use of the weighted data depth for discrimination purposes is shown.
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Depth of variance matrices
Brabenec, Tomáš ; Nagy, Stanislav (advisor) ; Hlubinka, Daniel (referee)
The scatter halfspace depth is a quite recently established concept which extends the idea of the location halfspace depth for positive definite matrices. It provides an interest- ing insight into the problem of suitability quantification of a matrix for the description of the covariance structure of the multivariate distribution. The thesis focuses on the investigation of theoretical properties of the depth for both general and more specific probability distributions which can be used for data analysis. It turns out that the es- timators of scatter parameters based on the empirical scatter depth are quite effective even under relatively weak assumptions. These estimators are useful especially for dealing with a sample containing outliers or contaminating observations. 1
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Weighted Halfspace Depths and Their Properties
Kotík, Lukáš
Statistical depth functions became well known nonparametric tool of multivariate data analyses. The most known depth functions include the halfspace depth. Although the halfspace depth has many desirable properties, some of its properties may lead to biased and misleading results especially when data are not elliptically symmetric. The thesis introduces 2 new classes of the depth functions. Both classes generalize the halfspace depth. They keep some of its properties and since they more respect the geometric structure of data they usually lead to better results when we deal with non-elliptically symmetric, multimodal or mixed distributions. The idea presented in the thesis is based on replacing the indicator of a halfspace by more general weight function. This provides us with a continuum, especially if conic-section weight functions are used, between a local view of data (e.g. kernel density estimate) and a global view of data as is e.g. provided by the halfspace depth. The rate of localization is determined by the choice of the weight functions and theirs parameters. Properties including the uniform strong consistency of the proposed depth functions are proved in the thesis. Limit distribution is also discussed together with some other data depth related topics (regression depth, functional data depth)...
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Statistical Depth for Functional Data
Nagy, Stanislav ; Hlubinka, Daniel (advisor) ; Claeskens, Gerda (referee) ; Hušková, Marie (referee)
Statistical data depth is a nonparametric tool applicable to multivariate datasets in an attempt to generalize quantiles to complex data such as random vectors, random functions, or distributions on manifolds and graphs. The main idea is, for a general multivariate space M, to assign to a point x ∈ M and a probability distribution P on M a number D(x; P) ∈ [0, 1] characterizing how "centrally located" x is with respect to P. A point maximizing D(·; P) is then a generalization of the median to M-valued data, and the locus of points whose depth value is greater than a certain threshold constitutes the inner depth-quantile region corresponding to P. In this work, we focus on data depth designed for infinite-dimensional spaces M and functional data. Initially, a review of depth functionals available in the literature is given. The emphasis of the exposition is put on the unification of these diverse concepts from the theoretical point of view. It is shown that most of the established depths fall into the general framework of projection-driven functionals of either integrated, or infimal type. Based on the proposed methodology, characteristics and theoretical properties of all these depths can be evaluated simultaneously. The first part of the work is devoted to the investigation of these theoretical properties,...
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Weighted Halfspace Depths and Their Properties
Kotík, Lukáš
Statistical depth functions became well known nonparametric tool of multivariate data analyses. The most known depth functions include the halfspace depth. Although the halfspace depth has many desirable properties, some of its properties may lead to biased and misleading results especially when data are not elliptically symmetric. The thesis introduces 2 new classes of the depth functions. Both classes generalize the halfspace depth. They keep some of its properties and since they more respect the geometric structure of data they usually lead to better results when we deal with non-elliptically symmetric, multimodal or mixed distributions. The idea presented in the thesis is based on replacing the indicator of a halfspace by more general weight function. This provides us with a continuum, especially if conic-section weight functions are used, between a local view of data (e.g. kernel density estimate) and a global view of data as is e.g. provided by the halfspace depth. The rate of localization is determined by the choice of the weight functions and theirs parameters. Properties including the uniform strong consistency of the proposed depth functions are proved in the thesis. Limit distribution is also discussed together with some other data depth related topics (regression depth, functional data depth)...
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Weighted Halfspace Depths and Their Properties
Kotík, Lukáš ; Hlubinka, Daniel (advisor) ; Omelka, Marek (referee) ; Mosler, Karl (referee)
Statistical depth functions became well known nonparametric tool of multivariate data analyses. The most known depth functions include the halfspace depth. Although the halfspace depth has many desirable properties, some of its properties may lead to biased and misleading results especially when data are not elliptically symmetric. The thesis introduces 2 new classes of the depth functions. Both classes generalize the halfspace depth. They keep some of its properties and since they more respect the geometric structure of data they usually lead to better results when we deal with non-elliptically symmetric, multimodal or mixed distributions. The idea presented in the thesis is based on replacing the indicator of a halfspace by more general weight function. This provides us with a continuum, especially if conic-section weight functions are used, between a local view of data (e.g. kernel density estimate) and a global view of data as is e.g. provided by the halfspace depth. The rate of localization is determined by the choice of the weight functions and theirs parameters. Properties including the uniform strong consistency of the proposed depth functions are proved in the thesis. Limit distribution is also discussed together with some other data depth related topics (regression depth, functional data depth)...
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Weighted Data Depth and Depth Based Discrimination
Vencálek, Ondřej ; Hlubinka, Daniel (advisor) ; Anděl, Jiří (referee) ; Malý, Marek (referee)
The concept of data depth provides a powerful nonparametric tool for multivariate data analysis. We propose a generalization of the well-known halfspace depth called weighted data depth. The weighted data depth is not affine invariant in general, but it has some useful properties as possible nonconvex central areas. We further discuss application of data depth methodology to solve discrimination problem. Several classifiers based on data depth are reviewed and one new classifier is proposed. The new classifier is a modification of k-nearest- neighbour classifier. Classifiers are compared in a short simulation study. Advantage gained from use of the weighted data depth for discrimination purposes is shown.
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