Student Probability/PDE Seminar

Student Probability/PDE Seminar

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Mar 9, 2015, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM | 736 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Jeff Calder, UC Berkeley (Speaker)
Convex hull peeling, also called peeling the onion, refers to sorting points in Euclidean space into layers by repeatedly peeling off the vertices of the convex hull. It is widely used in robust statistics for ordering multi-variate data and defining a multi-variate median. Although much is known about the distributional properties of the points on the first convex layer, little is known about...