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A scale space approach for exploring structure in spherical data

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  • Vuollo, Ville
  • Holmström, Lasse

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A novel scale space approach, SphereSiZer, is proposed for exploring structure in spherical data, that is, directional data on the unit sphere of the three-dimensional Euclidean space. The method finds statistically significant gradients of the smooths of the probability density function underlying the observed data. Bootstrap is used to establish significance and inference is summarized with planar maps of contour plots of smooths of the data, overlaid with arrows that indicate the directions and magnitudes of the significant gradients. An effective way to explore such maps is a movie where each frame corresponds to a fixed level of smoothing, that is, a particular spatial scale on the sphere. The SphereSiZer is demonstrated using simulated data as well as two real-data examples. The first example examines the distribution of infant head normal vector directions. The presence of local maxima in the normal vector distribution may indicate head deformity, such as severe flatness or asymmetry. The second example considers the distribution of earthquakes in the Northern Hemisphere.

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  • Vuollo, Ville & Holmström, Lasse, 2018. "A scale space approach for exploring structure in spherical data," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 57-69.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:csdana:v:125:y:2018:i:c:p:57-69
    DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2018.03.014
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    1. Hannig, J. & Marron, J.S., 2006. "Advanced Distribution Theory for SiZer," Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Statistical Association, vol. 101, pages 484-499, June.
    2. Lasse Holmström & Kyösti Karttunen & Jussi Klemelä, 2017. "Estimation of level set trees using adaptive partitions," Computational Statistics, Springer, vol. 32(3), pages 1139-1163, September.
    3. Lasse Holmström & Leena Pasanen, 2017. "Statistical Scale Space Methods," International Statistical Review, International Statistical Institute, vol. 85(1), pages 1-30, April.
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    1. Arthur Pewsey & Eduardo García-Portugués, 2021. "Recent advances in directional statistics," TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 30(1), pages 1-58, March.
    2. Rosa M. Crujeiras & Paula Saavedra-Nieves, 2021. "Comments on: Recent advances in directional statistics," TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 30(1), pages 64-67, March.

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