Entropic approach to multiscale clustering analysis

DOI10.3390/E14050865MaRDI QIDQ406070zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Manlio De Domenico, Antonio Insolia

Publication date 8 September 2014

Published in Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/e14050865

zbMATH Keywords

extreme value theoryKullback-Leibler divergencemultiscale clusteringultra-high energy cosmic rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Statistical astronomy (85A35) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Review text

Summary: Recently, a novel method has been introduced to estimate the statistical significance of clustering in the direction distribution of objects. The method involves a multiscale procedure, based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the Gumbel statistics of extreme values, providing high discrimination power, even in presence of strong background isotropic contamination. It is shown that the method is: (i) semi-analytical, drastically reducing computation time; (ii) very sensitive to small, medium and large scale clustering; (iii) not biased against the null hypothesis. Applications to the physics of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, as a cosmological probe, are presented and discussed.

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