Extending hypothesis testing with persistent homology to three or more groups

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2018.11.27MaRDI QIDQ2398939zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher Cericola, Inga Johnson, Joshua Kiers, Mitchell Krock, Jordan Purdy, Johanna Torrence

Publication date 21 August 2017

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03760

zbMATH Keywords

persistent homologypermutation test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15)

Abstract: We extend the work of Robinson and Turner to use hypothesis testing with persistence homology to test for measurable differences in shape between point clouds from three or more groups. Using samples of point clouds from three distinct groups, we conduct a large-scale simulation study to validate our proposed extension. We consider various combinations of groups, samples sizes and measurement errors in the simulation study, providing for each combination the percentage of $p$-values below an alpha-level of 0.05. Additionally, we apply our method to a Cardiotocography data set and find statistically significant evidence of measurable differences in shape between normal, suspect and pathologic health status groups.

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