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Vencalek, Ondrej ORCID: 0000-0002-8340-1429 and Pokotylo, Oleksii (2018). Depth-weighted Bayes classification. Comput. Stat. Data Anal., 123. S. 1 - 13. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ISSN 1872-7352

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Abstract

Two procedures for supervised classification are proposed. These are based on data depth and focus on the centre of each class. The classifiers add either a depth or a depth rank term to the objective function of the Bayes classifier. The cost of misclassifying a point depends not only on a class where it belongs, but also on its centrality with respect to this class. The classification of points that are more central is enforced while outliers are downweighted. The proposed objective function can also be used to evaluate the performance of other classifiers instead of the usual average misclassification rate. Use of the depth function increases robustness of the new procedures against the large inclusion of contaminated data that often impede the Bayes classifier. Properties of the new methods are investigated and compared with those of the Bayes classifier. Theoretical results are derived for elliptically symmetric distributions, while comparison for non-symmetric distributions is conducted by means of a simulation study. Comparisons are conducted for both theoretical classifiers and their empirical counterparts. The performance of the newly proposed classifiers is also compared to the performance of several standard methods in some real life situations. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Vencalek, Ondrej UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-8340-1429 UNSPECIFIED Pokotylo, Oleksii UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-182435
DOI:	10.1016/j.csda.2018.01.011
Journal or Publication Title:	Comput. Stat. Data Anal.
Volume:	123
Page Range:	S. 1 - 13
Date:	2018
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1872-7352
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Statistics & Probability Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/18243