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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
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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Periodic regression quantiles
Kotík, Lukáš ; Jurečková, Jana (referee) ; Hlubinka, Daniel (advisor)
The thesis deals with a new approach to construction of confidence regions for multivariate random variables and multivariate random samples. This can also be viewed as one of the possible generalizations of the notion of quantile into a multidimensional case. The approach is based on the following: in the first step, a centred random vector is transformed into polar (hyperspherical) coordinates. Afterwards, so-called directional quantiles are determined. These are classical unidimensional quantiles for distribution of the radius conditional on the angle of the polar coordinates. Sample analogy of the directional quantiles is estimated using trigonometrical series with coefficients obtained by quantile regression. The first chapter deals with the choice of the origin for the centralization of the data. We examine both theoretical and sample cases. We offer several variants with focus on the deepest point. The second chapter concerns quantile regression with focus on the aspects, which have an impact on the properties of sample periodical regression quantiles. The third and most exhaustive chapter is devoted to periodical regression quantiles construction and properties. Both theoretical and sample variants and their relationship are described. Several examples are offered in the end of the chapter.
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