Karl Mosler

Multivariate Dispersion, Central Regions, and Depth (eBook, PDF)

The Lift Zonoid Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This monograph describes theoretical properties of zonoids and their applications to multivariate analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461300458
• Artikelnr.: 43992079

Autorenporträt

Karl Mosler, Universität zu Köln, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- 1 Introduction.- 1.4 Examples of lift zonoids.- 1.5 Representing distributions by convex compacts.- 1.6 Ordering distributions.- 1.7 Central regions and data depth.- 1.8 Statistical inference.- 2 Zonoids and lift zonoids.- 2.1 Zonotopes and zonoids.- 2.2 Lift zonoid of a measure.- 2.3 Embedding into convex compacts.- 2.4 Continuity and approximation.- 2.5 Limit theorems.- 2.6 Representation of measures by a functional.- 2.7 Notes.- 3 Central regions.- 3.1 Zonoid trimmed regions.- 3.2 Properties.- 3.3 Univariate central regions.- 3.4 Examples of zonoid trimmed regions.- 3.5 Notions of central regions.- 3.6 Continuity and law of large numbers.- 3.7 Further properties.- 3.8 Trimming of empirical measures.- 3.9 Computation of zonoid trimmed regions.- 3.10 Notes.- 4 Data depth.- 4.1 Zonoid depth.- 4.2 Properties of the zonoid depth.- 4.3 Different notions of data depth.- 4.4 Combination invariance.- 4.5 Computation of the zonoid depth.- 4.6 Notes.- 5 Inference based on data depth (by Rainer Dyckerhoff).- 5.1 General notion of data depth.- 5.2 Two-sample depth test for scale.- 5.3 Two-sample rank test for location and scale.- 5.4 Classical two-sample tests.- 5.5 A new Wilcoxon distance test.- 5.6 Power comparison.- 5.7 Notes.- 6 Depth of hyperlanes.- 6.1 Depth of a hyperlane and MHD of a sample.- 6.2 Properties of MHD and majority depth.- 6.3 Combinatorial invariance.- 6.4 measuring combinatorial dispersion.- 6.5 MHD statistics.- 6.6 Significance tests and their power.- 6.7 Notes.- 7 Depth of hyperlanes.- 6.1 Depth of a hyperplane and MHD of a sample.- 6.2 Properties of MHD and majority depth.- 6.3 Combinatorial invariance.- 6.4 Measuring combinatorial dispersion.- 6.5 MHD statistics.- 6.6 Significance tests and their power.- 6.7 Notes.- 8 Orderings and indices of dispersion.- 8.1 Lift zonoid order.- 8.2 order of marginals and independence.- 8.3 Order of convolutions.- 8.4 Lift zonoid order vs. convex order.- 8.5 Volume inequalities and random determinants.- 8.6 Increasing, scaled, and centered orders.- 8.7 Properties of dispersion orders.- 8.8 Multivariate indices of dispersion.- 8.9 Notes.- 9 Economic disparity and concentration.- 9.1 Measuring economic inequality.- 9.2 Inverse Lorenz function (ILF).- 9.3 Price Lorenz order.- 9.4 Majorizations of absolute endowments.- 9.5 Other inequality orderings.- 9.6 Measuring industrial concentration.- 9.7 Multivariate concentration function.- 9.8 Multivariate concentration indices.- 9.9 Notes.- Appendix A: Basic notions.- Appendix B: Lift zonoids of bivariate normals.