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Kriging prediction for manifold-valued random fields


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Authors

Menafoglio, A 
Secchi, P 

Abstract

The statistical analysis of data belonging to Riemannian manifolds is becoming increasingly important in many applications, such as shape analysis, diffusion tensor imaging and the analysis of covariance matrices. In many cases, data are spatially distributed but it is not trivial to take into account spatial dependence in the analysis because of the non linear geometry of the manifold. This work proposes a solution to the problem of spatial prediction for manifold valued data, with a particular focus on the case of positive definite symmetric matrices. Under the hypothesis that the dispersion of the observations on the manifold is not too large, data can be projected on a suitably chosen tangent space, where an additive model can be used to describe the relationship between response variable and covariates. Thus, we generalize classical kriging prediction, dealing with the spatial dependence in this tangent space, where well established Euclidean methods can be used. The proposed kriging prediction is applied to the matrix field of covariances between temperature and precipitation in Quebec, Canada.

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Keywords

Non Euclidean data, Residual kriging, Positive definite symmetric matrices

Journal Title

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

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Journal ISSN

0047-259X
1095-7243

Volume Title

145

Publisher

Elsevier BV