Some intriguing properties of Tukey's half-space depth

DOI10.3150/10-BEJ322zbMath1229.62063arXiv1201.1171MaRDI QIDQ654416

Subhajit Dutta, Probal Chaudhuri, Anil Kumar Ghosh

Publication date: 28 December 2011

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1171

zbMATH Keywords

Banach space; \(l_p\) norm; symmetric distributions; depth contours; half-space median

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H05: Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas

46N30: Applications of functional analysis in probability theory and statistics

62A09: Graphical methods in statistics

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