Geometry of sample spaces
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Geometry of sample spaces. / Harms, Philipp; Michor, Peter W.; Pennec, Xavier; Sommer, Stefan.
I: Differential Geometry and its Application, Bind 90, 102029, 2023.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Geometry of sample spaces
AU - Harms, Philipp
AU - Michor, Peter W.
AU - Pennec, Xavier
AU - Sommer, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In statistics, independent, identically distributed random samples do not carry a natural ordering, and their statistics are typically invariant with respect to permutations of their order. Thus, an n-sample in a space M can be considered as an element of the quotient space of Mn modulo the permutation group. The present paper takes this definition of sample space and the related concept of orbit types as a starting point for developing a geometric perspective on statistics. We aim at deriving a general mathematical setting for studying the behavior of empirical and population means in spaces ranging from smooth Riemannian manifolds to general stratified spaces. We fully describe the orbifold and path-metric structure of the sample space when M is a manifold or path-metric space, respectively. These results are non-trivial even when M is Euclidean. We show that the infinite sample space exists in a Gromov–Hausdorff type sense and coincides with the Wasserstein space of probability distributions on M. We exhibit Fréchet means and k-means as metric projections onto 1-skeleta or k-skeleta in Wasserstein space, and we define a new and more general notion of polymeans. This geometric characterization via metric projections applies equally to sample and population means, and we use it to establish asymptotic properties of polymeans such as consistency and asymptotic normality.
AB - In statistics, independent, identically distributed random samples do not carry a natural ordering, and their statistics are typically invariant with respect to permutations of their order. Thus, an n-sample in a space M can be considered as an element of the quotient space of Mn modulo the permutation group. The present paper takes this definition of sample space and the related concept of orbit types as a starting point for developing a geometric perspective on statistics. We aim at deriving a general mathematical setting for studying the behavior of empirical and population means in spaces ranging from smooth Riemannian manifolds to general stratified spaces. We fully describe the orbifold and path-metric structure of the sample space when M is a manifold or path-metric space, respectively. These results are non-trivial even when M is Euclidean. We show that the infinite sample space exists in a Gromov–Hausdorff type sense and coincides with the Wasserstein space of probability distributions on M. We exhibit Fréchet means and k-means as metric projections onto 1-skeleta or k-skeleta in Wasserstein space, and we define a new and more general notion of polymeans. This geometric characterization via metric projections applies equally to sample and population means, and we use it to establish asymptotic properties of polymeans such as consistency and asymptotic normality.
KW - Central-limit theorem
KW - Consistency
KW - Fréchet means
KW - Geometric statistics
KW - k-Means
KW - Statistics on metric spaces
KW - Wasserstein geometry
U2 - 10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102029
DO - 10.1016/j.difgeo.2023.102029
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85162109125
VL - 90
JO - Differential Geometry and its Applications
JF - Differential Geometry and its Applications
SN - 0926-2245
M1 - 102029
ER -
ID: 358549691