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Optimal signed-rank tests based on hyperplanes
2005
Abstract For analysing k -variate data sets, Randles (J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 84 (1989) 1045) considered hyperplanes going through k - 1 data points and the origin. He then introduced an empirical angular distance between two k -variate data vectors based on the number of hyperplanes (the so-called interdirections ) that separate these two points, and proposed a multivariate sign test based on those interdirections. In this paper, we present an analogous concept (namely, lift-interdirections ) to measure the regular distances between data points. The empirical distance between two k -variate data vectors is again determined by the number of hyperplanes that separate these two points; in th…
Symmetrised M-estimators of multivariate scatter
2007
AbstractIn this paper we introduce a family of symmetrised M-estimators of multivariate scatter. These are defined to be M-estimators only computed on pairwise differences of the observed multivariate data. Symmetrised Huber's M-estimator and Dümbgen's estimator serve as our examples. The influence functions of the symmetrised M-functionals are derived and the limiting distributions of the estimators are discussed in the multivariate elliptical case to consider the robustness and efficiency properties of estimators. The symmetrised M-estimators have the important independence property; they can therefore be used to find the independent components in the independent component analysis (ICA).