On depth measures and dual statistics. A methodology for dealing with general data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 753-766

  Cuevas, Antonio ^a   Fraiman, Ricardo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

62G07; 62G20; Depth measures; Functional data; primary; Projections method; secondary; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 58349119332     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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