A Principal Component Analysis for Trees

Details A Principal Component Analysis for Trees A Principal Component Analysis for Trees

2008-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/0810.0944v2

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Statistics Theory

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The active field of Functional Data Analysis (about understanding the variation in a set of curves) has been recently extended to Object Oriented Data Analysis, which considers populations of more general objects. A particularly challenging extension of this set of ideas is to populations of tree-structured objects. We develop an analog of Principal Component Analysis for trees, based on the notion of tree-lines, and propose numerically fast (linear time) algorithms to solve the resulting optimization problems. The solutions we obtain are used in the analysis of a data set of 73 individuals, where each data object is a tree of blood vessels in one person's brain.

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