Victor Patrangenaru - Böcker

A New Way of Analyzing Object Data from a Nonparametric ViewpointNonparametric Statistics on Manifolds and Their Applications to Object Data Analysis provides one of the first thorough treatments of the theory and methodology for analyzing data on manifolds. It also presents in-depth applications to practical problems arising in a variety of fields, including statistics, medical imaging, computer vision, pattern recognition, and bioinformatics.The book begins with a survey of illustrative examples of object data before moving to a review of concepts from mathematical statistics, differential geometry, and topology. The authors next describe theory and methods for working on various manifolds, giving a historical perspective of concepts from mathematics and statistics. They then present problems from a wide variety of areas, including diffusion tensor imaging, similarity shape analysis, directional data analysis, and projective shape analysis for machine vision. The book concludes with a discussion of current related research and graduate-level teaching topics as well as considerations related to computational statistics.Researchers in diverse fields must combine statistical methodology with concepts from projective geometry, differential geometry, and topology to analyze data objects arising from non-Euclidean object spaces. An expert-driven guide to this approach, this book covers the general nonparametric theory for analyzing data on manifolds, methods for working with specific spaces, and extensive applications to practical research problems. These problems show how object data analysis opens a formidable door to the realm of big data analysis.

This book, a follow-up of Nonparametric Statistics on Manifolds and Their Applications to Object Data Analysis where the reader was introduced to data analysis on manifolds, is expanding the subject of data analysis on object spaces, to the case of metric spaces that have a smooth structure on an open dense subset only, governed by a nice filtration structure on the singular part of this space, that is comprised of manifolds whose boundaries are made of lower dimensional manifolds in this filtration. Such object spaces are known as stratified spaces, and their structure will be detailed in the second part of the book. Key examples of complex data from which one extracts data representable as points on a stratified space, and a review on data analysis on manifolds, are provided, alongside a summary of results on nonparametric methods on manifolds. Key results on asymptotic and nonparametric bootstrap on some stratified spaces are included. Certain object spaces with a manifold stratification arising in Statistics are considered with examples of application on data analysis and on them. Various applications include RNA based analysis of the SARSCov2 virus, 3D face identification from digital camera images, English Alphabet based comparison of certain European Languages. Nonparametric Statistics on Stratified Spaces and Their Applications in Object Data Analysis is intended for graduate students to expand their understanding of Nonparametric Statistics, and enhance their ability to grasp and extract complex data and analysis of manifolds.

A New Way of Analyzing Object Data from a Nonparametric ViewpointNonparametric Statistics on Manifolds and Their Applications to Object Data Analysis provides one of the first thorough treatments of the theory and methodology for analyzing data on manifolds. It also presents in-depth applications to practical problems arising in a variety of fields, including statistics, medical imaging, computer vision, pattern recognition, and bioinformatics.The book begins with a survey of illustrative examples of object data before moving to a review of concepts from mathematical statistics, differential geometry, and topology. The authors next describe theory and methods for working on various manifolds, giving a historical perspective of concepts from mathematics and statistics. They then present problems from a wide variety of areas, including diffusion tensor imaging, similarity shape analysis, directional data analysis, and projective shape analysis for machine vision. The book concludes with a discussion of current related research and graduate-level teaching topics as well as considerations related to computational statistics.Researchers in diverse fields must combine statistical methodology with concepts from projective geometry, differential geometry, and topology to analyze data objects arising from non-Euclidean object spaces. An expert-driven guide to this approach, this book covers the general nonparametric theory for analyzing data on manifolds, methods for working with specific spaces, and extensive applications to practical research problems. These problems show how object data analysis opens a formidable door to the realm of big data analysis.

This graduate-level textbook is primarily aimed at graduate students of statistics, mathematics, science, and engineering who have had an undergraduate course in statistics, an upper division course in analysis, and some acquaintance with measure theoretic probability.