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Error Probabilities for Halfspace Depth

@article{Burr2016ErrorPF,
  title={Error Probabilities for Halfspace Depth},
  author={Michael A. Burr and Robert Fabrizio},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2016},
  volume={abs/1605.04323}
}
Data depth functions are a generalization of one-dimensional order statistics and medians to real spaces of dimension greater than one; in particular, a data depth function quantifies the centrality of a point with respect to a data set or a probability distribution. One of the most commonly studied data depth functions is halfspace depth. It is of interest to computational geometers because it is highly geometric, and it is of interest to statisticians because it shares many desirable… 
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