A new geometric approach to data analysis using the Minkowski polytope.

DOI10.1016/S0167-9473(99)00080-8MaRDI QIDQ1566633zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. Delaunay

Publication date 4 June 2000

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-9473(99)00080-8

zbMATH Keywords

Clustering of diseaseExploratory data analysisFlatnessLeukemia

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate analysis (62H99) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

Review text

We introduce a new approach to the analysis of random samples in R\(^{d}\), based on a geometric transformation called the ``Minkowski polytope (MP). We describe how a theorem by Minkowski guarantees the existence and uniqueness of such a transformation, discuss its construction, and state a result about the almost sure convergence of a scaled version of the MP in R\(^{2}\). We show how the shape of the MP is sensitive to the presence of outliers and correlation in the sample. Finally, we use the MP to develop a new Monte Carlo test for spatial randomness over non-uniform populations, and illustrate its application on a well-known dataset of leukemia cases in the state of New York.

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