Depth Measures for Multivariate Functional Data

作者：Ieva Francesca^*; Paganoni Anna M

来源：Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2013, 42(7): 1265-1276.

DOI：10.1080/03610926.2012.746368

• Depth measures
• ECG signals
• Multivariate functional data
• Rank tests

In this article, we address the problem of mining and analyzing multivariate functional data. That is, data where each observation is a set of possibly correlated functions. Complex data of this kind is more and more common in many research fields, particularly in the biomedical context. In this work, we propose and apply a new concept of depth measure for multivariate functional data. With this new depth measure it is possible to generalize robust statistics, such as the median, to the multivariate functional framework, which in turn allows the application of outlier detection, boxplots construction, and nonparametric tests also in this more general framework. We present an application to Electrocardiographic (ECG) signals.

• 出版日期2013-4-1