Necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a Fréchet mean on the circle

DOI10.1051/PS/2012015MaRDI QIDQ5408489zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Charlier

Publication date 10 April 2014

Published in ESAIM: Probability and Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1986

zbMATH Keywords

circular dataFréchet meanuniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directional data; spatial statistics (62H11)

Abstract: Let $(S^1,d_{S^1})$ be the unit circle in $R^2$ endowed with the arclength distance. We give a sufficient and necessary condition for a general probability measure $mu$ to admit a well defined Fr'echet mean on $(S^1,d_{S^1})$. %This criterion allows to recover already known sufficient conditions of existence. We derive a new sufficient condition of existence $P(alpha,varphi)$ with no restriction on the support of the measure. Then, we study the convergence of the empirical Fr'echet mean to the Fr'echet mean and we give an algorithm to compute it.

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