A monotonicity preserving transformation for confidence regions of unsymmetric multivariate data
Authors |
Florian Sobieczky Birgit Sponer |
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Title | A monotonicity preserving transformation for confidence regions of unsymmetric multivariate data |
Type | misc |
Address | ENBIS Spring Meeting 2017, Schlägl, Austria, May 28-30, 2017 |
Month | May |
Year | 2017 |
Abstract | For the purpose of producing more accurate confidence regions for non-symmetric continuous multivariate unimodal data we introduce and validate a method which bijectively maps the sample space by a non-linear transformation which preserves convexity of the pdf's contour-surfaces. Polygonal shaped confidence regions are defined using a generalization of the Triakis Tetrahedron to d dimensions. Comparison with distributions of higher sphericity and different decay properties become possible. A simulation study for several multi-normal non-symmetric distributions exemplifies the method's power and its criteria of applicability. |