Ray-shooting depth: computing statistical data depth of point sets in the plane

  • Authors:
  • Nabil H. Mustafa;Saurabh Ray;Mudassir Shabbir

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, LUMS, Pakistan;Max-Plank-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany;Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers

  • Venue:
  • ESA'11 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Over the past several decades, many combinatorial measures have been devised for capturing the statistical data depth of a set of n points in R2. These include Tukey depth [15], Oja depth [12], Simplicial depth [10] and several others. Recently Fox et al. [7] have defined the Ray-Shooting depth of a point set, and given a topological proof for the existence of points with high Ray-Shooting depth in R2. In this paper, we present an O(n2log2n)-time algorithm for computing a point of high Ray-Shooting depth. We also present a linear time approximation algorithm.