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Geometric Data Analysis: Advancements of the Statistical Methodology and Applications

Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-refubium-40087-8
  • Data analysis has become fundamental to our society and comes in multiple facets and approaches. Nevertheless, in research and applications, the focus was primarily on data from Euclidean vector spaces. Consequently, the majority of methods that are applied today are not suited for more general data types. Driven by needs from fields like image processing, (medical) shape analysis, and network analysis, more and more attention has recently been given to data from non-Euclidean spaces---particularly (curved) manifolds. It has led to the field of geometric data analysis whose methods explicitly take the structure (for example, the topology and geometry) of the underlying space into account. This thesis contributes to the methodology of geometric data analysis by generalizing several fundamental notions from multivariate statistics to manifolds. We thereby focus on two different viewpoints. First, we use Riemannian structures to derive a novel regression scheme for general manifolds that relies on splines of generalized Bézier curves. It can accurately model non-geodesic relationships, for example, time-dependent trends with saturation effects or cyclic trends. Since Bézier curves can be evaluated with the constructive de Casteljau algorithm, working with data from manifolds of high dimensions (for example, a hundred thousand or more) is feasible. Relying on the regression, we further develop a hierarchical statistical model for an adequate analysis of longitudinal data in manifolds, and a method to control for confounding variables. We secondly focus on data that is not only manifold- but even Lie group-valued, which is frequently the case in applications. We can only achieve this by endowing the group with an affine connection structure that is generally not Riemannian. Utilizing it, we derive generalizations of several well-known dissimilarity measures between data distributions that can be used for various tasks, including hypothesis testing. Invariance under data translations is proven, and a connection to continuous distributions is given for one measure. A further central contribution of this thesis is that it shows use cases for all notions in real-world applications, particularly in problems from shape analysis in medical imaging and archaeology. We can replicate or further quantify several known findings for shape changes of the femur and the right hippocampus under osteoarthritis and Alzheimer's, respectively. Furthermore, in an archaeological application, we obtain new insights into the construction principles of ancient sundials. Last but not least, we use the geometric structure underlying human brain connectomes to predict cognitive scores. Utilizing a sample selection procedure, we obtain state-of-the-art results.
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Author:Martin HanikORCiD
Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Publisher:Refubium
Fulltext Url:https://d-nb.info/1298693713/34
Tag:Ancient sundials; Bi-invariant statistics; Brain connectomes; Bézier splines; Regression in Riemannian manifolds; Shape analysis
MSC-Classification:22-XX TOPOLOGICAL GROUPS, LIE GROUPS (For transformation groups, see 54H15, 57Sxx, 58-XX. For abstract harmonic analysis, see 43-XX)
53-XX DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY (For differential topology, see 57Rxx. For foundational questions of differentiable manifolds, see 58Axx)
62-XX STATISTICS
CCS-Classification:J. Computer Applications
Granting Institution:Freie Universität Berlin
Advisor:Christof Schütte, Christoph von Tycowicz
Date of final exam:2023/07/13
Year of first publication:2023
Page Number:192
DOI:https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-39809
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