Multivariate Quantiles: Geometric and Measure-Transportation-Based Contours

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Auteurs principaux: Hallin, Marc, Konen, Dimitri
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author Hallin, Marc
Konen, Dimitri
author_facet Hallin, Marc
Konen, Dimitri
contents Quantiles are a fundamental concept in probability and theoretical statistics and a daily tool in their applications. While the univariate concept of quantiles is quite clear and well understood, its multivariate extension is more problematic. After half a century of continued efforts and many proposals, two concepts, essentially, are emerging: the so-called (relabeled) geometric quantiles, extending the characterization of univariate quantiles as minimizers of an L1 loss function involving the check functions, and the more recent center-outward quantiles based on measure transportation ideas. These two concepts yield distinct families of quantile regions and quantile contours. Our objective here is to present a comparison of their main theoretical properties and a numerical investigation of their differences.
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spellingShingle Multivariate Quantiles: Geometric and Measure-Transportation-Based Contours
Hallin, Marc
Konen, Dimitri
Statistics Theory
Probability
Quantiles are a fundamental concept in probability and theoretical statistics and a daily tool in their applications. While the univariate concept of quantiles is quite clear and well understood, its multivariate extension is more problematic. After half a century of continued efforts and many proposals, two concepts, essentially, are emerging: the so-called (relabeled) geometric quantiles, extending the characterization of univariate quantiles as minimizers of an L1 loss function involving the check functions, and the more recent center-outward quantiles based on measure transportation ideas. These two concepts yield distinct families of quantile regions and quantile contours. Our objective here is to present a comparison of their main theoretical properties and a numerical investigation of their differences.
title Multivariate Quantiles: Geometric and Measure-Transportation-Based Contours
topic Statistics Theory
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02499