Huber means on Riemannian manifolds

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Autores principales: Lee, Jongmin, Jung, Sungkyu
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author Lee, Jongmin
Jung, Sungkyu
author_facet Lee, Jongmin
Jung, Sungkyu
contents This article introduces Huber means on Riemannian manifolds, providing a robust alternative to the Frechet mean by integrating elements of both square and absolute loss functions. The Huber means are designed to be highly resistant to outliers while maintaining efficiency, making it a valuable generalization of Huber's M-estimator for manifold-valued data. We comprehensively investigate the statistical and computational aspects of Huber means, demonstrating their utility in manifold-valued data analysis. Specifically, we establish nearly minimal conditions for ensuring the existence and uniqueness of the Huber mean and discuss regularity conditions for unbiasedness. The Huber means are consistent and enjoy the central limit theorem. Additionally, we propose a novel moment-based estimator for the limiting covariance matrix, which is used to construct a robust one-sample location test procedure and an approximate confidence region for location parameters. The Huber mean is shown to be highly robust and efficient in the presence of outliers or under heavy-tailed distributions. Specifically, it achieves a breakdown point of at least 0.5, the highest among all isometric equivariant estimators, and is more efficient than the Frechet mean under heavy-tailed distributions. Numerical examples on spheres and the space of symmetric positive-definite matrices further illustrate the efficiency and reliability of the proposed Huber means on Riemannian manifolds.
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spellingShingle Huber means on Riemannian manifolds
Lee, Jongmin
Jung, Sungkyu
Statistics Theory
Methodology
Primary: 62R30, 62G35, secondary:62E20
This article introduces Huber means on Riemannian manifolds, providing a robust alternative to the Frechet mean by integrating elements of both square and absolute loss functions. The Huber means are designed to be highly resistant to outliers while maintaining efficiency, making it a valuable generalization of Huber's M-estimator for manifold-valued data. We comprehensively investigate the statistical and computational aspects of Huber means, demonstrating their utility in manifold-valued data analysis. Specifically, we establish nearly minimal conditions for ensuring the existence and uniqueness of the Huber mean and discuss regularity conditions for unbiasedness. The Huber means are consistent and enjoy the central limit theorem. Additionally, we propose a novel moment-based estimator for the limiting covariance matrix, which is used to construct a robust one-sample location test procedure and an approximate confidence region for location parameters. The Huber mean is shown to be highly robust and efficient in the presence of outliers or under heavy-tailed distributions. Specifically, it achieves a breakdown point of at least 0.5, the highest among all isometric equivariant estimators, and is more efficient than the Frechet mean under heavy-tailed distributions. Numerical examples on spheres and the space of symmetric positive-definite matrices further illustrate the efficiency and reliability of the proposed Huber means on Riemannian manifolds.
title Huber means on Riemannian manifolds
topic Statistics Theory
Methodology
Primary: 62R30, 62G35, secondary:62E20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15764