Delaunay Weighted Two-sample Test for High-dimensional Data by Incorporating Geometric Information

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Autori principali: Gu, Jiaqi, Tan, Ruoxu, Yin, Guosheng
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author Gu, Jiaqi
Tan, Ruoxu
Yin, Guosheng
author_facet Gu, Jiaqi
Tan, Ruoxu
Yin, Guosheng
contents Two-sample hypothesis testing is a fundamental problem with various applications, which faces new challenges in the high-dimensional context. To mitigate the issue of the curse of dimensionality, high-dimensional data are typically assumed to lie on a low-dimensional manifold. To incorporate geometric information in the data, we propose to apply the Delaunay triangulation and develop the Delaunay weight to measure the geometric proximity among data points. In contrast to existing similarity measures that only utilize pairwise distances, the Delaunay weight can take both the distance and direction information into account. A detailed computation procedure is developed to learn the unknown manifold and approximate the Delaunay weight. We further propose a novel nonparametric test statistic using the Delaunay weight matrix. Asymptotic normality under the null and consistency under the alternative of the test statistic are developed. Applied on simulated data, the new test shows robustness to the learning of the unknown manifold and exhibits substantial power gain if the distributions differ directions. The proposed test also shows great power on a real dataset of mice protein expression levels.
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spellingShingle Delaunay Weighted Two-sample Test for High-dimensional Data by Incorporating Geometric Information
Gu, Jiaqi
Tan, Ruoxu
Yin, Guosheng
Methodology
62G10, 62G20
Two-sample hypothesis testing is a fundamental problem with various applications, which faces new challenges in the high-dimensional context. To mitigate the issue of the curse of dimensionality, high-dimensional data are typically assumed to lie on a low-dimensional manifold. To incorporate geometric information in the data, we propose to apply the Delaunay triangulation and develop the Delaunay weight to measure the geometric proximity among data points. In contrast to existing similarity measures that only utilize pairwise distances, the Delaunay weight can take both the distance and direction information into account. A detailed computation procedure is developed to learn the unknown manifold and approximate the Delaunay weight. We further propose a novel nonparametric test statistic using the Delaunay weight matrix. Asymptotic normality under the null and consistency under the alternative of the test statistic are developed. Applied on simulated data, the new test shows robustness to the learning of the unknown manifold and exhibits substantial power gain if the distributions differ directions. The proposed test also shows great power on a real dataset of mice protein expression levels.
title Delaunay Weighted Two-sample Test for High-dimensional Data by Incorporating Geometric Information
topic Methodology
62G10, 62G20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03198