Tree models for difference and change detection in a complex environment

DOI10.1214/12-AOAS548MaRDI QIDQ714372zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yong Wang, Ilze Ziedins, Neil Challands, Mark Holmes

Publication date 21 October 2012

Published in The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1561, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1346418578

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-value adjustmentarson case studyevent data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics (62P99) Nonparametric inference (62G99) Sequential statistical methods (62L99)

Abstract: A new family of tree models is proposed, which we call "differential trees." A differential tree model is constructed from multiple data sets and aims to detect distributional differences between them. The new methodology differs from the existing difference and change detection techniques in its nonparametric nature, model construction from multiple data sets, and applicability to high-dimensional data. Through a detailed study of an arson case in New Zealand, where an individual is known to have been laying vegetation fires within a certain time period, we illustrate how these models can help detect changes in the frequencies of event occurrences and uncover unusual clusters of events in a complex environment.

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• R
• rpart
• AdaBoost.MH

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